“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells, And marigolds all in a row.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
I already have a lovely mistress - Lady Golf. If I go into boating, I'd be two-timing her and I can't do… — Alan Hale Jr Copy Share Image
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
(Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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
In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
“She might be furious at such things, jealous too on a purely human level; but she would never consider that the position… — Antonia Fraser 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
“Mistress Ownens rubbed her eyes with a knuckle, then dabbed at them with her apron, and she shook her head. "Do you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Mistress Isabel ties me down and pushes my limits of pain and pleasure, and I’m the one screaming out her name. True… — Ella Dominguez Copy Share Image
No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live… — Harriet Ann Jacobs 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
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
He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy.… — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark came out, I got to go to Japan and Australia and France, Italy, Germany, everywhere with… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
“Emma was just like any other mistress; and the charm of novelty, falling down slowly like a dress, exposed only the eternal… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Stay away from Mistress Laera,” said Frank, “or I'll find grounds to sue your ass off. Possibly for damaging my fist when… — Sindra van Yssel Copy Share Image
Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain. — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
“An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world who knows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because,… — Aditi Mathur Kumar Copy Share Image
One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would… — Kate Sanborn Copy Share Image
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
“Self-doubt is a persuasive mistress; careful not to shag her or you’ll never get your balls back.” - Simon Hunt” — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image