Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. — Clarence Darrow 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
I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again. — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes. — William Shakespeare 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
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
The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to… — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat. — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Hiring a mistress is the next worse thing to buying a slave: both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior” — Charlotee Brontë Copy Share Image
In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet," she writes. "Now you are older… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
“Power is a fickle mistress, easy to seduce, but even easier to lose. That's how it works. One moment she is your… — Nenia Campbell 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
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 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
(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
Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look,… — Leigh Hunt 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
The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake… — Alison Fell 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
“Claudia was either unaware of her expression, or didn't care that he knew of her interest in his nakedness. Once he had… — Elizabeth Elliott 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
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A second marriage, a new mistress suddenly brought to an established home, rarely gives pleasure to its inmates. This applies in an… — Ellen Wood Copy Share Image
