Harold Robbins Quotes

The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

Well, in Washington, this is a very hard time for Eleanor and Franklin. This is when Lucy Mercer first appears. And Lucy Mercer is Eleanor Roosevelt's own secretary. Very beautiful young woman, not unlike Eleanor Roosevelt: tall, blonde, thick haired. And FDR is having an affair with her, which Eleanor Roosevelt finds out when FDR returns from Europe in 1918 with the famous flu of 1918.

I remember saying to my husband, ''Why? Why have you got this lady around?'' And he said, ''Well, I refuse to be the Prince of Wales who never had a mistress.''

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.

A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other hand, men spend half their income on the wives when the wife finds out about the mistress. So it all balances out.

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.

I asked my wife, 'Is there somebody else?' She said, 'There MUST be.'

DDP, while your in the hospital screaming in pain, your wife will be on her back screaming my name!

That must be strange, cheating on your wife with a flight attendant. They're in bed and she's says, 'In the event that wife should come home early please notice the location of the nearest emergency exit.'

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.

First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. "... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her." "Who was it?" "His own wife." "Oh, dear.

Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two he's also having a fling with a fringe tootsie, both the wife and the mistress are outraged and the combination lover, husband, and cheat may well wind up with a large French bread knife between his ribs.

Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.