Mistress Quotes
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I shagged my sex god boss whilst my husband was on holiday with his secret mistress' has a certain ring to it.
— Kitty French
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
— Samuel Richardson
Mistress Smartyfangs - means morning.
— Stephanie S. Sanders
You went up a girl and came down a woman.
— Patrick Ness
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Sometimes we just have to wait long enough, Mistress," he said. "Then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing.
— Brandon Sanderson
I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress.
— Graham Greene
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.
— Edith Wharton
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self. — John Keats
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self. — John Keats
Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
— Martin Luther
Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress declared she couldn't even bear to have me mime.
— Sara Sheridan
He was quiet a moment, studying her. "I don't have a mistress."
"Oh. Well." What did she say to that? Good? Damned right, you don't? — Alissa Johnson
"Oh. Well." What did she say to that? Good? Damned right, you don't? — Alissa Johnson
Love is an unfaithful mistress.
— Chirag Tulsiani
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
— Winston S. Churchill
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
— Julian Barnes
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
— Elsie De Wolfe
Welcome Beauty, banish fear, You are queen and mistress here. Speak your wishes, speak your will, Swift obedience meets them still.
— Ludwig Bechstein
It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.
— Robertson Davies
We were both victims to the same overshadowing evil - she, as mistress, I, as slave.
— Frederick Douglass
She was a Mistress who needed a Master. Who needed him.
— Joey W. Hill
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
— William Shakespeare
Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.
— Gerald Abrahams
Medicine is my life, but literature is my mistress, and mysteries and poetry are my drugs of choice.
— John A. Vanek
Am I to be your secret mistress?"
He shakes his head. "No, my love. I will be yours. — Sherry D. Ficklin
He shakes his head. "No, my love. I will be yours. — Sherry D. Ficklin
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero
the mistress of ceremonies, in her
— Elin Hilderbrand
It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What'd you choose to do with yours?
— Philippa Gregory
A bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground ...
— John Geddes
Ethics are my veiled mistress; I love them, but know not what they are.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.
— Alain Ducasse
A woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.
— Elsie De Wolfe
He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.
— Margaret Benson
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
— Stanley Baldwin
There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.
— Saadi
I neither require nor desire your gratitude, mistress. I want nothing in these worlds save your death.
Volusian to Eugenie — Richelle Mead
Volusian to Eugenie — Richelle Mead
Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.
— Carl R. Trueman
The grass is wet on the hill. The sky has no end. For the dog who waits for his mistress, Madge, noon comes again.
— Andre Alexis
Louis-Cesare. It's good to finally have you in hand.
— Karen Chance
Mistress Weatherwax, you are a natural disputant." "No I ain't!
— Terry Pratchett
Your wife doesn't want to hear a word about how hot your mistress is, and vice versa.
— John Benjamin Hickey
The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger. — R.L.S.
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger. — R.L.S.
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
— Heinrich Heine
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
— Anton Chekhov
The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
— Darren Shan
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
— Ambrose Bierce
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
— Anton Chekhov
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
— William Lilly
Touch'd with miseries
She seem'd at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
- Lamia (John Keats) — John Keats
She seem'd at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
- Lamia (John Keats) — John Keats
His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.
— Terry Pratchett
Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Hmm," Mistress Coyle hmms.
— Patrick Ness
I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.
— Oscar Levant
Power is the mistress that stalks us all.
— Tim Sanders
Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
— Michel De Montaigne
Fame is a jealous mistress
And will brook no rival. — Thiruvalluvar
And will brook no rival. — Thiruvalluvar
I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.
— Sheilah Graham Westbrook
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
— John Dryden
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
— Prince Charles
Outside of monsters, meat is meat. Science is a powerful teacher. And hunger is a cruel mistress.
— Lila Bowen
I know I'm supposed to be the new Mistress of Revels! But that doesn't mean I have pockets full of muffins!
— Lisa Mantchev
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
— Susanna Moodie
Married! Not to retreat, but to be the mistress of a lord's domain; not to be safe in a convent, but to live as some lord's breeding sow.
— Katherine Arden
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
— Francis Bacon
You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress.
— Jerry Springer
Jessica - "You might be a Mistress, but you're also in our gang. And a woman needs her posse around her when things go bad.
— Cherise Sinclair
The man is always the last to know when
Cupid has struck him
-Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress — Sabrina Jeffries
Cupid has struck him
-Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress — Sabrina Jeffries
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
— Cedric Hardwicke
The moon's my constant mistress,
And the lowly owl my marrow;
The flaming drake and the night crow make,
Me music to my sorrow. — Anonymous
And the lowly owl my marrow;
The flaming drake and the night crow make,
Me music to my sorrow. — Anonymous
Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.
— Honore De Balzac
Fashion is a cruel mistress.
— Hester Browne
Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.
— Louis Sabin
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
— Rudyard Kipling
My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
— Ben Jonson
I will be mistress of myself.
— Jane Austen
You're far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You're far better suited as a wife.
— Lisa Kleypas
It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.
— Voltaire
Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.
— Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook