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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. — Alexander Pope
When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity. — James Goldsmith
A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are… — Andre Maurois
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may… — Elsie de Wolfe
I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" . . . but I will say that it is… — Joseph Story
And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well… — William Shakespeare
Art is a jealous mistress. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress'… — Andrew Marvell
Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of… — Eugene Kennedy
The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and… — Alexandre Dumas
We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as… — C.S. Lewis
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress. — H. L. Mencken
That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in… — John Lennon
Want is the mistress of invention — Susanna Centlivre
Mistress of the grisly and the glutinous — Graham Masterton
Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails,… — Douglas Clegg
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife. — Arthur Golden
The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. — Freda Adler
Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? — Prince Charles
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. — Paul Gauguin
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you… — William Wycherley

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