Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

I love women. I mean, I'm married, but I used to get in all kinds of trouble.

The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

The people of this country do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.

Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married, I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

I'd never be unfaithful to my wife for the reason that I love my house very much.

Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.

Adultery is like, here's the way it is, and here's exactly what you're supposed to do. It's like cheating at Monopoly. For me, it just doesn't apply to human relations. I mean, I use the word sometimes because it's fair and everybody knows what it means, but I find it a very irritating word.

As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

I am steady with my wife. I'm faithful to my wife.

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out of fashion.

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

Some people feel like you have to cement your love.