Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven. — Harriette Wilson Copy Share Image
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. — Clarence Darrow 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
Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook 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
They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a… — Argus Hamilton 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
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
More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder… — Jay Leno 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
“This is your home,’ he said. ‘You are mistress of Finchley Park, Vanessa. You may do whatever you wish.’ Her smile broadened.… — Mary Balogh 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
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
Men have two basic needs. Neither of them, no matter what they say, is sex. They need love and they need work.… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
I did a film called The Jesuit, which was an independent film. I did that shortly after Mistresses. I was still feeling… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then… — Winston Churchill 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
“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
“Your true soul and body appear before me. Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“because there was a new face in the chorus, and rumor—in the person of his friend Aubrey—said she was a promising possibility… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
“You ask perhaps if one should take the maid herself? Such a plan brings the greatest risk with it. In one case,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
“At eight-thirty that night Ian stood on the steps outside Elizabeth’s uncle’s town house suppressing an almost overwhelming desire to murder Elizabeth’s… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society,… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read… — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share Image
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife. — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
Same broads, used to hang up on my walls now they come up out their drawers, how's that for a mistress? — J Cole Copy Share Image
“Grimspace is a bitch mistress who carries unearthly delight in one hand and a crop in the other.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image