A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
Thomas Mann

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost

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

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.
Duke of Wellington

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
Marshall McLuhan

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.
Jackie Collins

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

Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.
James McGreevey

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.
Ron Chernow

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
Julio Cortazar

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 Louis Stevenson

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
John Cusack

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.
Carl Clinton Van Doren

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
Bradley Whitford

He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.
Neil Tennant

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.
Peter Bart