Mistress Quotes

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

In the dark, all cats are grey.

Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

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

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.

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.

My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

I remember saying to my husband, ''Why? Why have you got this lady around?'' And he said, ''Well, I refuse to be the Prince of Wales who never had a mistress.''

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

Want is the mistress of invention

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.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.

When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.