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
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife. — Cedric Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Inclusiveness is expanded by grievance. If I were a mistress, I would not need to fight for my career. — Zhou Qunfei 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
I take it de woman you come here so with, is out of your league and she seems to know it. De… — Zulu Copy Share Image
The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the… — Heloise Copy Share Image
“Has some married man asked you to be his mistress? If so, give me his name and I will see to it… — Amanda Quick Copy Share Image
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Who are you?" he asked. I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Remember, I have my own home now, and I shall one day be mistress of Longbourn, while you are still searching for… — Jann Rowland Copy Share Image
“I like him to sleep close to me. Danes says it is better than leaving him alone in a cradle to get… — Sally Gardner Copy Share Image
My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“El, you are telling me to run away with a man to become his mistress." "I am telling you to be happy.… — Jennifer Ashley Copy Share Image
“Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress. Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is… — Honoré de Balzac 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
I am humbly following in your footsteps and having a row with the Government over the iniquity of the Marriage Tax in… — Marie Stopes 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
“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
“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
Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her… — William H. Masters Copy Share Image
“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her. — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
