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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
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
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.
— Ingmar Bergman
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.
— Edith Wharton
A young mistress is better than an old master.
— H.G.Wells
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[A]s for my prediction that [the iPhone] would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.
— John C. Dvorak
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
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
Philosophize: you are a mistress, part of a great hysterical you mean historical tradition.
— Lorrie Moore
It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.
— Robert Redford
Mistress Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow?
With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells,
And marigolds all in a row. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence ...
— Joseph Conrad
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
— Lord Byron
It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.
— Robertson Davies
Karma is a cruel mistress.
— Kelley York
he loved sincerity, but only as he might love a pimp who could keep him in touch with the daily life of his mistress.
— Marcel Proust
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
She realized with shock now that her current husband also had a mistress. Her name was cocaine.
— Doreen Dyet
It is written that a wife shall be submissive to her husband. It is nowhere written that his mistress should be.
— Johann Sigurjonsson
A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress and only after that a friend.
— Anton Chekhov
Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.
— Sextus Propertius
Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
— Winston S. Churchill
Every house, to be a true home, needs a mistress.
— Laura Frantz
Art is a jealous mistress.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
— Alexander Pope
Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.
— John Steinbeck
A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.
— Alexandre Dumas
God doesn't measure big the way people measure big. Jesus had just twelve followers." He blinked a few times. "Fame is a demanding mistress.
— Karen Kingsbury
To Fate, a fickle mistress whose sense of justice is exceeded only by her sense of humor.
— Teresa Medeiros
Sylvia Day is the undisputed mistress of tender, erotic romance. Her books are a luxury every woman deserves.
— Teresa Medeiros
A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
— Salman Rushdie
A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress's head,
— Jane Austen
This session is over. You don't make demands of a Mistress for the purpose of sport.
— Sarah Michelle Lynch
What kind of moron wants to be a gladiator?
— Kate Quinn
Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
— William Faulkner
By Jove ... ' he said to himself: 'It's true! What a jolly little mistress she'd make!
— Ford Madox Ford
Love is a tempestuous mistress.And none of us shall ever master her. — Lisa Ann Sandell
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
— William Osler
She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master.
— Georgette Heyer
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.
— Brenda Jackson
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
— Honore De Balzac
I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.
— Oscar Levant
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
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
Fashion is a cruel mistress.
— Hester Browne
You're far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You're far better suited as a wife.
— Lisa Kleypas
Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.
— Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
Outside of monsters, meat is meat. Science is a powerful teacher. And hunger is a cruel mistress.
— Lila Bowen
Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Medicine is my life, but literature is my mistress, and mysteries and poetry are my drugs of choice.
— John A. Vanek
Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
— Michel De Montaigne
Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival. — Thiruvalluvar
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
— Prince Charles
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 whenCupid has struck him
-Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress — Sabrina Jeffries
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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
Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.
— Gerald Abrahams
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
— William Lilly
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
— Ambrose Bierce
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
— Heinrich Heine
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.
— Mistress Harley
Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.
— Carl R. Trueman
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
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
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
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