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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

The word "mistress" sounds like a cross between mistake and mattress. — Lisa Kleypas

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

I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress. — Graham Greene

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

[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

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

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

Truth is a jealous, vicious mistress that never, ever sleeps. — Tahereh Mafi

Mistress Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells,
And marigolds all in a row. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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

I am a Mistress to others; you are the Master of me. Of my heart, mind and soul. — Joey W. Hill

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife. — Arthur Golden

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

I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of 'sex slave' and 'prostitute' so much. I was a mistress! — Kola Boof

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

Knowledge is king, a dream is his queen, and self destruction is his mistress. — Noel DeJesus

There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her. — Saadi

What kind of moron wants to be a gladiator? — Kate Quinn

A wife is meant to be cherished and to be treated with a gentle hand, while a mistress is a convenient cunt to rut in. — Sylvia Day

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

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

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 bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground ... — John Geddes

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

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

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. — Horace

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 mistress
And 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 when
Cupid 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

Be a mistress to none, but all good to some. — Nelly

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

The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger. — R.L.S.

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

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