Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one. — George Etherege Copy Share Image
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while… — Martial Copy Share Image
Earl of Sandwhich . . .You shall either die of the pox or on the gallows John Wilkes . . . That… — John Wilkes Copy Share Image
So, when my mistress shall beseen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a queen, — Sir Henry Wotton Copy Share Image
It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
“Mistress Allen was only an ordinary provincial manor lady, bent on nothing more sinister than retrieving money of which she felt defrauded,… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be… — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The only way to lose a kingdom is if your power drops or..well, if you're killed." "I'm sure Volusian would love to… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair.… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
My local paper, The New York Times, Yahoo News, CBS, and The Washington Post, all agreed to stop using the word 'mistress.'… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
I at length reached the last house but one, where the path to the summit diverged to the right, while the summititself… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
We love being in love, that's the truth on't. If we had not met Joan, we should have met Kate, and adored… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
ROXANE: Live, for I love you! CYRANO: No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!'… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image