When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy.… — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Take the back door," she said. "Claire, you and your strang friend-" "Eve," they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson's in trouble. They're going after this tax thing. Jesse said he will amend his taxes to show the money that… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“Jane says, ‘He asked me if I would be his good mistress.’ They exchange glances. There is a difference between a mistress… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He was all right,’ he said, after reflection. ‘Though I didn’t hear him offer to have a coin stamped like the others.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’ll never leave you. I’ll never mistreat you. I think you know that by now. Try with me. Let us find what… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“He nodded. “From the first moment I saw you, I wanted you. It was the night of the Nethercourt gathering three years… — Jess Michaels Copy Share Image
“I'm anxious for you to meet my new boarder," Miriam said as they headed down the street. "He's such a handsome, well-mannered… — Charlotte McPherren Copy Share Image
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Stay away from Mistress Laera,” said Frank, “or I'll find grounds to sue your ass off. Possibly for damaging my fist when… — Sindra van Yssel Copy Share Image
Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark came out, I got to go to Japan and Australia and France, Italy, Germany, everywhere with… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
“Emma was just like any other mistress; and the charm of novelty, falling down slowly like a dress, exposed only the eternal… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“Sir, your wife is living; that is a fact acknowledged this morning by yourself. If I lived with you as you desire,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her,… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
