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

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I was sole keeper and mistress of the impossible. I possessed the keys to pain. — Cesar Aira

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress. — Oskar Werner

Overhead the moon guided him, his fair mistress, his unattainable lover. — Elizabeth Hoyt

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

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

I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven. — Harriette Wilson

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

Life is the mistress to be wooed. — Khalil Gibran

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

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

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Life, the true mistress of all real men - would have tricked me as it tricks everyone else. We — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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

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

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

From The Mistress Bride ... "you are my heart, my life, my soul.. I am your other half — Michelle Reid

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. — William Wycherley

Hiring a mistress is the next worse thing to buying a slave: both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior — Charlotte Bronte

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

Humor is the mistress of tears. — William Makepeace Thackeray

No, Mistress of Doubts, I've brought you here to this secluded corner of the city for the nefarious purpose of cooking your dinner myself. — Scott Lynch

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

To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle — Patrick Ness

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

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine. — Alison Weir

Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer. — Betty Jane Wylie

Maid
of the luminous grey-eyes,
Mistress
of honey and marble implacable white thighs
and Goddess,
chaste daughter of Zeus. — Hilda Doolittle

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. — Clarence Darrow

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? — William Osler

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house. — John Stuart Mill

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun — William Shakespeare

Mistress of the grisly and the glutinous — Graham Masterton

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love. — Marina Tsvetaeva

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

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

Oops, the moth woman mumbles — Michael Chabon

In the dark, all cats are grey. — Benjamin Franklin

Never take the mistress if you can get the maid. — James M. Cain

I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes. — William Shakespeare

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

Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.' — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress. — Leonard Slatkin

Sylvia Day is the undisputed mistress of tender, erotic romance. Her books are a luxury every woman deserves. — Teresa Medeiros

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. — Hector Hugh Munro

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws. — Frank Herbert

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

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

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. — Henry Fuseli

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish. — William Shakespeare

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee! — Alexander Pope

Mistress; please: are you divine, or mortal? — Homer

This session is over. You don't make demands of a Mistress for the purpose of sport. — Sarah Michelle Lynch

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

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

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

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

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

Unanimity is the mistress of strength. — Alphonse De Lamartine

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 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

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

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

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

The man is always the last to know when
Cupid has struck him
-Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress — Sabrina Jeffries

We were both victims to the same overshadowing evil - she, as mistress, I, as slave. — Frederick Douglass

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. — Honore De Balzac

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

The customer is always wrong. — Mistress Harley

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

But, Mistress, do not be seen to stray too far from the real that is clear to others, or you may stand accused of the real that is clear to you. — Jeanette Winterson

-she loved Lily Cate like her own, and for this night, this moment, she would be her mother, even though there was no guarantee of tomorrow. — Laura Frantz

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

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

the mistress of ceremonies, in her — Elin Hilderbrand

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. — Ambrose Bierce

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

The grass is wet on the hill. The sky has no end. For the dog who waits for his mistress, Madge, noon comes again. — Andre Alexis

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

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

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