The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane... — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“Grief is a hard mistress to have, Rome. She eventually wants all you have to give her.” — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The military is my husband's mistress & sometimes that bitch gets all the attention. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman,… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
“Truth is a jealous, vicious mistress that never ever sleeps, is what I don’t tell him. I’ll never be okay.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“This is your home,’ he said. ‘You are mistress of Finchley Park, Vanessa. You may do whatever you wish.’ Her smile broadened.… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
“People often say that, by pointing out to a man the faults of his mistress, you succeed only in strengthening his atachment… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“A woman can only become a man’s friend in three stages: first she’s an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress and only after… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Who are you?" he asked. I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“I like him to sleep close to me. Danes says it is better than leaving him alone in a cradle to get… — Sally Gardner Copy Share Image
“Remember, I have my own home now, and I shall one day be mistress of Longbourn, while you are still searching for… — Jann Rowland Copy Share Image
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
My teachers always said, "You're very talented, but don't set your heart on art. You're only a girl." I was inspired by… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
“Mistress mine, your unique and special quality is this: When I'm around you, I'm happy." "Richard!" "Quit blubbering. Can't stand a female… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
The FBI demonstrated this by taking down the former head of the CIA [General David Petraeus] over classified information given to his… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh,… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
We love being in love, that's the truth on't. If we had not met Joan, we should have met Kate, and adored… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
I at length reached the last house but one, where the path to the summit diverged to the right, while the summititself… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I thought, perhaps you might have had something to say, but I see we are nothing to each other. If you're quite… — Elizabeth Gaskell et al Copy Share Image