“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
Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled… — James Dashner 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… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
A man may doubt of God's existence when he is in good health, just as he may doubt whether his relation with… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid… — George William Curtis 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
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook Copy Share Image
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in… — Lord Byron 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
You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to… — Mark Salling 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
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington 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
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“...a bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
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