My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Belief?" "Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?" Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?" "The… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“DeVere smiled. "A mistress is a fine thing, Ned, but a married mistress with a compacent husband is the very best bargain.… — Victoria Vane Copy Share Image
“Mistress Creation keeps calling my name... i long for her, and she, for me... we will be reunited soon. In the interim,… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“And after that until the end, there was no relief from being a girl with chores that she wasn’t being paid for,… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
Anne Marie Smith flew to Washington to tell prosecutors about Gary Condit's attempt to get her to deny their affair. It looks… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Ethan, this is my favorite moment, before all of my other favorite moments are created with a new client. You are my… — Ruby Madden Copy Share Image
“For years, every conversation she had with a man had been colored by calculation. Would she put him off is she spoke… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I took the jacket off, changed my T-shirt for a dark gray tank top, slipped on the tangle of the back sheath,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
“I put my hands on my hips, not caring if I sounded like a Billingsgate fishwife. “Yes, it was a dangerous thing… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to… — Les Paul Copy Share Image
Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men:… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Jane says, ‘He asked me if I would be his good mistress.’ They exchange glances. There is a difference between a mistress… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Her fault had been in trying to keep it as tight as a mistress might. All a wife needed was a little… — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry, Mistress,” OreSeur whispered. “How long?” Vin asked, bowing her head. “Since you gave my predecessor—the real OreSeur—the dog’s body,” the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson's in trouble. They're going after this tax thing. Jesse said he will amend his taxes to show the money that… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Take the back door," she said. "Claire, you and your strang friend-" "Eve," they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
