When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Music is something I've always loved and have always come back to like a mistress. — Tom Sandoval Copy Share Image
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“I know I'm supposed to be the new Mistress of Revels! But that doesn't mean I have pockets full of muffins!” — Lisa Mantchev Copy Share Image
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“A woman can only become a man’s friend in three stages: first she’s an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress and only after… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love. — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Marriage is a sacrament that exists partially to protect women from sexual exploitation. If you take that protection away from her, then… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
Sunday-the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be a feminist. My hope and goal is that I'm going to raise two very strong independent women… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
“The lover readily imagines that he and his mistress are one. He feels he has love enough for both and that his… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish, her election Hath seal’d thee for herself; for… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Oh, mention it! If I storm, you have the art of weeping." "Mr. Rochester, I must leave you." "For how long, Jane?… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The FBI demonstrated this by taking down the former head of the CIA [General David Petraeus] over classified information given to his… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“Mistress mine, your unique and special quality is this: When I'm around you, I'm happy." "Richard!" "Quit blubbering. Can't stand a female… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And… — Richelle Mead 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
Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image