"Cheat on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hankering after this Woman: why cou'd I not have put the cheat on her, as Julio has? I stand as little on my Word as he: a good round Oath or two had done the Business.—But a pox on't, I lov'd too ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. II • Aphra Behn
... over again, when I have thought about it, I have felt my poor heart swell with a kind of uncontrollable fervour. I have often, too, said to myself that this love is no delusion. If we were to set it down as nothing more than a merciful cheat on the part of the Creator, however pleasant it might be, it would lose its charm. If I were to think that my wife's devotion to me is nothing more than the simple expression of a necessity to love somebody, that there is nothing in me which justifies ...
— Mark Rutherford's Deliverance • Mark Rutherford |
