Mistress Quotes

I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.

The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Medicine is a jealous mistress. It demands all your time.

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

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.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.

I'll take a foot fetish with a man and his wife over a foot fetish with a man and his mistress any day. I don't care what they do. You go with it with your marriage and have a good time.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

Out of all of the stuff I have done in my whole 12 years, the Mistress series I and II are the most enjoyable processes I've ever been through and definitely, I'm most proud of that music.

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

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.