Mistress Quotes
311 Mistress quotes by 237 unique authors
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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
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Chess is a beautiful mistress.
— Bent Larsen
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Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.
— Gerald Abrahams
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
— Oskar Werner
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
— Horace
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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
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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
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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
— John Stuart Mill
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Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.
— Alain Ducasse
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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
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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
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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
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Life is the mistress to be wooed.
— Khalil Gibran
Who Wrote These Mistress Quotes
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