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Mistress Quotes by Alexander Pope
- No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to…
- Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
More Mistress Quotes
- 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… — Lord Byron