Mistress Quotes

311 Mistress quotes by 237 unique authors

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to… — Elizabeth Bowen
Chess is a beautiful mistress. — Bent Larsen
Chess is a good mistress but a bad master. — Gerald Abrahams
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature… — Anton Chekhov
To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was… — Ernest Hemingway
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an… — Duke Ellington
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to choose. — Mark Salling
A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other… — Jay Leno
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there remains… — Merlin Stone
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. — Oskar Werner
Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress,… — Anna Funder
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign… — Joseph Conrad
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always… — Martial
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers. — Julian Barnes
Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in… — Marquis de Sade
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not. — Horace
The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman… — Andrew Sarris
Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And… — Philip Roth
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house. — John Stuart Mill
Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two. — Alain Ducasse
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to… — William Davenant
Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray, was always his… — Thomas Paine
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always… — Winston Churchill
Life is the mistress to be wooed. — Khalil Gibran

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