#affair

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#amusements #concerned #fail #forgetting #his

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. ↗

— Emily Carr

#all things #bored #eternal #eternal love #expected

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#current #i #interested #policy #politics

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#enough #far #hard #i #life

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#life #mask #secret #life

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#aversion #both #china #i #i think

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs. ↗

— Confucius

#before #example #go #laborious #people

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#churchill #cynical #day #decades #every

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. ↗

— Bette Davis

#affair #boring #getting #good #i

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#fidelity #fling #love #lust #middle-age