Mistress's Quotes

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

What's your name, pictsie?' 'Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin Mac Feegle, mistress.' 'You're very small, aren't you?' 'Only for my height, mistress. — Terry Pratchett

Mistress Smartyfangs - means morning. — Stephanie S. Sanders

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. — Terry Pratchett

You went up a girl and came down a woman. — Patrick Ness

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. — Freda Adler

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys. — Robert A. Heinlein

Sometimes we just have to wait long enough, Mistress," he said. "Then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing. — Brandon Sanderson

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

wouldn't have called him Don. His mistress? Let's hope not. — John Pesta

So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self. — John Keats

[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

Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress declared she couldn't even bear to have me mime. — Sara Sheridan

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

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal

Love is an unfaithful mistress. — Chirag Tulsiani

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt. — Winston S. Churchill

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers. — Julian Barnes

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

You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always — Thomas Hardy

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

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable ... . — F Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids. — St. Jerome

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. — Elsie De Wolfe

Welcome Beauty, banish fear, You are queen and mistress here. Speak your wishes, speak your will, Swift obedience meets them still. — Ludwig Bechstein

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

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