Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The word “mistress” sounds like a cross between mistake and mattress. “We’ve” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook Copy Share Image
It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A good name for a mistress would be close to a man's name so that nobody would know. Like... Conane. — Chevy Chase Copy Share Image
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Aye, a very bad business indeed. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I neither require nor desire your gratitude, mistress. I want nothing in these worlds save your death." Volusian to Eugenie” — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence... — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
“Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistress of somebody. — Joanna Krupa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I’m an old-fashioned man, my mistress, but even in my human life I thought the entire idea of death before dishonor was… — Lexi Blake Copy Share Image
“Neptune can sense that I love him; his multiple desires are perfectly clear to me. What charms me about the whole business… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“Indeed, sir, I would be more than willing to do whatever I can to speed my mistress and myself away from this… — Marsha Canham Copy Share Image
“Though the Mistress is all about power, confidence and control, she still must give back to her clients who provide the very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Shall I tell you all about her, cat? She is very beautiful – your mistress,’ he murmured drowsily, ‘and her hair is… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“It was fun to see him becoming sententious again, glorying in a science he had invented, and as positive as a village… — Colette Copy Share Image
A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“his…demands?” And then she had held her breath as if seriously expecting Isabel to answer. And last night as Isabel passed a… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
“Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
“Since his back was to her front Chloe had to practically plaster herself against his wide back in order to unbutton his… — Evangeline Anderson Copy Share Image
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
![“René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.” quote by Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aba/horace-walpole-3357_age_ren-of-anjou-1409-80-painted-a-picture-o_33917.jpg)
