Mistress Quotes

311 quotes by 244 authors

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. — Francis Bacon
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. — Honore de Balzac
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. — Henry Adams
It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight. — Annie Besant
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. — Ambrose Bierce
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. — Anton Chekhov
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
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
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
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. — Leonardo da Vinci
Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses. — Albert Camus
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. — Lord Chesterfield
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
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
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
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. — Hector Hugh Munro
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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