
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

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. —
Robert Southwell

MOM - Mistress Of Miracles —
Richelle E. Goodrich

Touch'd with miseries
She seem'd at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
- Lamia (John Keats) —
John Keats

Am I to be your secret mistress?"
He shakes his head. "No, my love. I will be yours. —
Sherry D. Ficklin

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

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled. —
Robert A. Heinlein

Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress. —
Gayle Forman

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

I see so little of you these days; your presence is as rare as that of one's discarded mistress. —
Charlie Chaplin

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and
mistress's will. —
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat. —
Margaret Benson

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

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. —
Victor Hugo

Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure. —
William Shakespeare

The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms. —
Darren Shan

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

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

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress. —
H.L. Mencken

Louis-Cesare. It's good to finally have you in hand. —
Karen Chance

Mistress L for Lethal, that's me. —
Cherise Sinclair

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 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

By Jove ... ' he said to himself: 'It's true! What a jolly little mistress she'd make! —
Ford Madox Ford

A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his
mistress's head, —
Jane Austen

I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips ... I'm twisted.
Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress. —
Ab-Soul

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape. —
Salman Rushdie

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

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

Forgiveness is like an olive tree, mistress. Once it takes root, it will grow, and it's hard to kill. —
Mesu Andrews

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

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises. —
Aiden Wilson Tozer

Hmm," Mistress Coyle hmms. —
Patrick Ness

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

Power is the mistress that stalks us all. —
Tim Sanders

Necessity is a violent school-mistress. —
Michel De Montaigne

Fame is a jealous mistress
And will brook no rival. —
Thiruvalluvar

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress. —
Sheilah Graham Westbrook

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. —
John Dryden

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? —
Prince Charles

Outside of monsters, meat is meat. Science is a powerful teacher. And hunger is a cruel mistress. —
Lila Bowen

I know I'm supposed to be the new Mistress of Revels! But that doesn't mean I have pockets full of muffins! —
Lisa Mantchev

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

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife. —
Cedric Hardwicke

My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue! —
Tamora Pierce

The moon's my constant mistress,
And the lowly owl my marrow;
The flaming drake and the night crow make,
Me music to my sorrow. —
Anonymous

Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood. —
Honore De Balzac

Fashion is a cruel mistress. —
Hester Browne

My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die. —
Anton Chekhov

Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress. —
Louis Sabin

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

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

My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return. —
Soren Kierkegaard

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. —
Ben Jonson

History is an enigmatic mistress who likes to keep her lovers on their toes —
Anonymous

I will be mistress of myself. —
Jane Austen

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

Unanimity is the mistress of strength. —
Alphonse De Lamartine

My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress. —
Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Has some married man asked you to be his mistress? If so, give me his name and I will see to it that he disappears. —
Amanda Quick