“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
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
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
(Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Professional wrestling is a beautiful yet cruel mistress. She will treat you well and treat you horribly, but outside of my family,… — Luke Harper Copy Share Image
“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells, And marigolds all in a row.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
I already have a lovely mistress - Lady Golf. If I go into boating, I'd be two-timing her and I can't do… — Alan Hale Jr Copy Share Image
I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There… — L.A. Meyer Copy Share Image
Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to… — Martial Copy Share Image
I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“Professor F. F. Bruce sums up the situation: A man might have a mistress (hetaira) who could provide him also with intellectual… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Tonight was the CNN primary debate with the four remaining candidates. It was kind of a change for Newt Gingrich. Usually when… — Jay Leno 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
Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with… — Brenda Jackson Copy Share Image
But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be… — Gwen Raverat Copy Share Image
I remember saying to my husband, ''Why? Why have you got this lady around?'' And he said, ''Well, I refuse to be… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
“Today, mistress, I will give you anything you desire. How about a tall, dark, handsome stranger? I'm sure I can find you… — Erica Verrillo Copy Share Image
