Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair.
Edward Norman

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.
Julie Christie

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.
Margaret Turnbull

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
Carolyn Heilbrun

Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!
Kenneth More

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.
Pam Gems

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.
Lynn Fontanne

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Walter Gropius

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore

So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.
Dennis Bergkamp

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind Russell

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.
Brenda Blethyn

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
Lionel Blue

The End of the Affair is almost like a play.
Neil Jordan

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
Maurice Ravel

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
Agnes de Mille

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
Herman Melville