quotes about Mistress
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Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.
-- Alain Ducasse -
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane...
-- Alexander Pushkin -
The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
-- Alfred de Vigny -
Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
-- Andre Breton -
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.
-- Anna Funder -
It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
-- Annie Besant -
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
-- Anton Chekhov -
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Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
-- Barry Goldwater -
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
-- Ben Jonson -
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.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
-- Cedric Hardwicke -
I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.
-- Cedric Hardwicke -
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
-- Charlotte Saunders Cushman -
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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
-- Duke Ellington -
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original. ... I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ... I don't need time, I need a deadline. ...There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ... Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.
-- Duke Ellington -
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When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere! Importune me no more!
-- Elizabeth I -
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 WolfeSource : Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub
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I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
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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.
-- Eugene Kennedy -
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
-- Freda AdlerSource : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.
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Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
-- George EtheregeSource : 1676 The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 1, sc.1.
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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
-- George William Curtis -
Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.
-- Gerald Abrahams -
Mistress of the grisly and the glutinous
-- Graham Masterton -
I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.
-- Harold RobbinsSource : Harold Robbins (1985). “The Inheritors”, Pocket
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I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
-- Harriet Ann JacobsSource : Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.41, Prestwick House Inc
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
-- Harriet Ann Jacobs -
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 -
I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.
-- Harriette WilsonSource : Memoirs (1825)
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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
-- Hector Hugh MunroSource : Reginald in Russia (1910) "A Young Turkish Catastrophe"
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Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
-- Heinrich Heine -
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.
-- Henri de Regnier -
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
-- Horace -
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René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.
-- Horace Walpole -
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
-- Jane Austen -
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
-- Jay SeanSource : "Jay Sean – A BollySpice EXCLUSIVE!". Interview with Aashi Gahlot, bollyspice.com. November 21, 2014.
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Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Jim Backus -
Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.
-- John B. S. Haldane -
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.
-- John Constable -
That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.
-- John Lennon -
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Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
-- Jose Marti -
Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.
-- Kate MortonSource : Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster
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I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly taking down the framed examples of fine embroideries, samplers, and needlework from teh hallway wall and tucking them under her arm. "Mistress! Come on! You've got to leave!" She calmly turns and faces me. "Why?" she asks. "The British are coming?" "Only one, Mistress," I say
-- L.A. Meyer -
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I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.
-- Leonard SlatkinSource : "Star-spangled Promenader". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2001.
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Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.
-- Leonard Slatkin -
Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her.
-- Lisa Ann Sandell -
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.
-- Margaret BensonSource : Margaret Benson (1901). “The soul of a cat: and other stories”
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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.
-- Margaret Cavendish -
I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to choose.
-- Mark Salling -
Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook -
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In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?
-- Merlin StoneSource : Merlin Stone (2012). “When God Was A Woman”, p.36, Doubleday
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Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.
-- Natalie Clifford BarneySource : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.9, New Victoria Publishers
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Be a mistress to none, but all good to some.
-- NellySource : Song: Jang a Lang
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I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.
-- Oscar Levant -
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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
-- Oscar Wilde -
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
-- Oskar WernerSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.
-- Patrick RothfussSource : "Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on Their New Album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". "Coup De Main" Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.
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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.
-- Paul Gauguin -
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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 -
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
-- Prince Charles -
Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.
-- Propertius -
Take the back door," she said. "Claire, you and your strang friend-" "Eve," they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her fst for a bump. "Or, you could call me Eve the Great, Mistress of All She Surveys. Eve for short.
-- Rachel Caine -
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It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.
-- Richard B. Garnett -
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'.
-- Richard von Krafft-EbingSource : Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.146, Butterworth-Heinemann
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress
-- Sabrina Jeffries -
Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.
-- Samuel Morse -
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
-- Samuel Richardson -
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I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.
-- Seth MacFarlane -
I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.
-- Sheilah Graham Westbrook -
Want is the mistress of invention
-- Susanna CentlivreSource : Susanna Centlivre (1746). “The Busie Body. A comedy ... The fifth edition”, p.9
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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 MoodieSource : Susanna Moodie (1913). “Roughing It in the Bush, or Life in Canada”, p.193, Hayes Barton Press
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The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect
-- Terry Pratchett -
Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.
-- Thiruvalluvar -
The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?
-- Timothy Garton AshSource : "Whether it's hacking or the NSA, some of us don't accept that privacy is dead". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.
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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.
-- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
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My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
-- Vincent Bugliosi -
I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
-- Vincent Bugliosi -
Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.
-- Vincent Van Gogh -
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.
-- Violet TrefusisSource : Violet Keppel Trefusis, Mitchell Alexander Leaska (1991). “Violet to Vita: the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21”, Viking Adult
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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.
-- Walter Wangerin -
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
-- William LillySource : William Lilly (1822). “William Lilly's History of His Life and Times from the Year 1602 to 1681”, p.44
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We love being in love, that's the truth on't. If we had not met Joan, we should have met Kate, and adored her. We know our mistresses are no better than many other women, nor no prettier, nor no wiser, nor no wittier. 'Tis not for these reasons we love a woman, or for any special quality or charm I know of; we might as well demand that a lady should be the tallest woman in the world, like the Shropshire giantess, as that she should be a paragon in any other character, before we began to love her.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
Humor is the mistress of tears.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
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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.
-- William WycherleySource : 1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.
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Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
-- William Wycherley -
Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.
-- Carl R Trueman -
Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.
-- Dov Davidoff -