Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“President Trump’s numerous secret mistresses are bad news for corporate USA.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
MARRIAGE, A group which consists of: a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two; — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress. — Propertius Copy Share Image
“Slave. Minion. Fiend. The others who have come before me have been called such things, but I prefer to think of myself… — Charlotte Featherstone Copy Share Image
An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I’m sober and I’m lifted/ Somewhere… — Drake Copy Share Image
“My name is Jerrod Ross, Squire from Pendern Hall. And who might you be, madam?" "I? I am Sandra Cranston, Mistress of… — Karyn Gerrard Copy Share Image
A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man in health questions whether there is a God, and he also doubts whether it be a sin to have intercourse… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The Arab leaders, they don't have a love affair with the Palestinians or the Palestinian leadership, but the publics have, and they… — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can,… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“She carried herself like a queen,: gracefully, regal, and dignified. She was all woman and every inch a lady, and he had… — Elaine Coffman Copy Share Image
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish, her election Hath seal’d thee for herself; for… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Oh, mention it! If I storm, you have the art of weeping." "Mr. Rochester, I must leave you." "For how long, Jane?… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“No!" he cried and his face pinched with frustration and pain. "I don't want to hear more reasons why we shouldn't be… — Jess Michaels Copy Share Image
Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He stared at her and his smile slowly faded. He put his hands on his hips. He took a deep breath and… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
