#adultery

Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle-class people, were there none but faithless wives? With her strict provincial morality, she was amazed at the licensed promiscuity of Parisian life. ↗

— Émile Zola

#morality #paris #life

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#crime #evil #fanaticism #i #longer

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#ago #always #changed #deal #haven

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable. ↗

— Bono

#action #action movie #adultery #blood #car

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#believe #blame #character #dishonesty #flaws

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#forgives #gospel #murder #never #new