Mistress Quotes
311 quotes by 244 authors
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
— Francis Bacon
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
— Francis Bacon
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
— Honore de Balzac
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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
— Henry Adams
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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
— Annie Besant
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
— Lord Byron
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
— Anton Chekhov
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all…
— Lord Chesterfield
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For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged…
— Ernestine Rose
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As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they…
— William Shakespeare
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
— Albert Camus
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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not give her all,…
— Clarence Darrow
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Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive…
— George Washington
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The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying…
— Isabella Beeton
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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she…
— Henry Fielding
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