“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is your mistress and memory is your slave.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not. — Horace Copy Share Image
“A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses, and he wears a… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future. Fate can come to rule your life if you don't decide… — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips...I'm twisted. Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
Very well, Lord Maccon. If we are going to play this particular hand, would you be interested in becoming my...” “Mistress? — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
(The tree bend over. Suddenly, a hiss and a meow sounded an instant before two cats darted off across the backyard.) Look,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“And do you not think less of me for making my fortune in such a way?” After all, her own sister did.… — Jenna Maclaine Copy Share Image
We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'll live as a courtesan, not as a woman. I'll embrace any man that comes my way. It's not hard giving your… — Hwang Jini Copy Share Image
The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“I’ll never leave you. I’ll never mistreat you. I think you know that by now. Try with me. Let us find what… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
“He was all right,’ he said, after reflection. ‘Though I didn’t hear him offer to have a coin stamped like the others.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Don't be mad at a hoe for doing what she does best, besides it's not her that owes you that loyalty.” — Michelle Blanchard Copy Share Image
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image