Mistress Quotes

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.

To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.

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?

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

I have this mistress: show business.

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

(Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.

Mistress, I have never asked anything of you in my servitude. But now, I beg you this: do not make me keep passing these adolescent sentiments back and forth all night.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die

I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.

His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.

England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted – and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.

Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

Self-doubt is a persuasive mistress careful not to shag her or you’ll never get your balls back.” - Simon Hunt

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

A sailor's love for the sea is only matched by his mistress's salty kiss.

-she loved Lily Cate like her own, and for this night, this moment, she would be her mother, even though there was no guarantee of tomorrow.

As a techdomme I love to take control of your digital life, your PC and of course that will have REAL LIFE effects and control.

She is not my mistress, ' replied the young sailor gravely, ‘she is my betrothed.’'Sometimes one and the same thing, ' said Morrel, with a smile.'Not with us, sir, ' replied Dantes.

The ocean is both my mistress and my lover. How else can I explain her salty kiss that is still on my lips.

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.