Mistress Quotes · Page 11

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— St. Jerome

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

— Ben Jonson

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

— Clarence Darrow

Same broads used to hang up on my walls, Now they come up out they draws, How's that for a mistress

— J Cole

“wouldn’t have called him Don. His mistress? Let’s hope not.”

— John Pesta

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Rudyard Kipling

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do…

— Philippa Gregory

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder…

— Jay Leno

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

— Richard B. Garnett

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

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.

— Robert A. Heinlein

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and…

— Martin Luther

They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a…

— Argus Hamilton

For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She…

— Ernestine Rose

Hey, Volusian, you haven't been checking me out, have you?" He gave me his trademark bland stare. "I assure you, mistress, the…

— Richelle Mead

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then…

— Winston Churchill

I did a film called The Jesuit, which was an independent film. I did that shortly after Mistresses. I was still feeling…

— Shannyn Sossamon

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with…

— Anton Chekhov

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not…

— Clarence Darrow

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no…

— Marquis de Sade

Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister…

— Ambrose Bierce

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low:…

— William Shakespeare

“All husbands are unfaithful in one way or another.” Lillian and Daisy glanced at each other with raised brows. “Father isn’t,” Lillian…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Andrew had been staring, mesmerized as Vivien recounted the details of Lysandra’s request, but now he shook off his interest. “And again,…

— Jess Michaels

“Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man's covetousness. The woman of yesterday…

— Kahlil Gibran

The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently…

— Andre Maurois

“For as much as Hillary Clinton might hate admitting this about Monica Lewinisky, Eleanor Roosevelt about Missy Le Hand, Queen Alexandra about…

— Wendy Leigh

“But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my…

— Benjamin Franklin

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.

— Edith Wharton

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

— Ingmar Bergman

“Don't be mad at a hoe for doing what she does best, besides it's not her that owes you that loyalty.”

— Michelle Blanchard

“As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

— William Faulkner

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

— Anonymous

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

— Harriet Ann Jacobs