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When you look back ... on your love affairs ... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.
— Shirley Maclaine
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
— Winston Churchill
The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.
— Elvis Presley
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?
— Robin Hobb
I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.
— Erik Larson
As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.
— Michael Dirda
Naturally men are drowned in a storm, but it is a perfectly straightforward affair, and the depths of the sea are only water after all.
— Virginia Woolf
I wish I could hold your hand outside this room, go for a walk, sit on a patio, watch the world go by.
— Leylah Attar
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
— George Bernard Shaw
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.
— Anthony Bourdain
When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.
— Jessica Tandy
Good content is the stuff of love affairs.
— Tom Webster
In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
RevolutionIs the affair of logical lunatics. — Wallace Stevens
Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.
— Marcus Aurelius
And most of all...I learned that even in the darkest of nights, the stars will always shine. ~ Lynn
— Ava Harrison
Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.
— William Dean Howells
Vivien also knew that the affair was one-sided and that her feelings were not something she would ever share with him.
— Kate Morton
But since the affairs of men rests still incertain,Let's reason with the worst that may befall. — William Shakespeare
Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.
— Buck Henry
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It was not the lover she regretted,' wrote a Swiss imperial tutor, who understood their relationship. 'It was the friend.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore
Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?
— Patrick McGrath
A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.
— Calvin Miller
Life is the literary result of my passionate love affair between self and the universe...
— Curtis R. Smith
For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
Promises," his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, "are like pie crusts - meant to be broken.
— John Harvey
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
— Joseph Campbell
She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.
— Viraj J. Mahajan
The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship.
— Nathaniel Branden
The love affair you seek is with yourself.
— Alan Cohen
If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.
— James M. Barrie
She didn't know how any woman anywhere conducted an affair without having the ear of a best friend.
— Elin Hilderbrand
Eve. The Lee family reunion, never a lively affair, is interrupted
— Agatha Christie
Love affairs are the real only education in life.
— Marlene Dietrich
It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.
— Brian Topp
It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.
— Yitzhak Rabin
Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.
— Arlene Francis
Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?
— Tennessee Williams
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.
— Joseph Brodsky
Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.
— Brenda Blethyn
Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.
— Kathleen Parker
The cause didn't seem sacred to her. The war did not seem to be holy affair.
— Margaret Mitchell
Either foreswear fucking others or the affair is over.
— Philip Roth
It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.
— Thomas Moore
Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.
— Vladimir Putin
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.
— Stephen King
Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'
— Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
The way I figure it when a man's in love with a girl, He's got a right to ask her to marry him. Any girl, Anybody's girl
— Robert Mitchum
Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
— Alice Duer Miller
I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.'
— Darren Star
For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move
— Robert Davis Stevenson
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
— Herbert Hoover
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
— George Bernard Shaw
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.
— Michael Graves
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.
— Stewart Udall
In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.
— Mardy Grothe
Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
— Aldous Huxley
We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.
— Richard Lugar
Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
— Wallace Stevens
Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living
— Aga Khan III
I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.
— Gore Vidal
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
— Alice Waters
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
— Francoise Sagan
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.
— Mary McCarthy
