Mistresses Quotes
31 quotes by 30 authors
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
— Francis Bacon
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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
— Annie Besant
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Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
— Albert Camus
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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
— Lord Chesterfield
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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
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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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At last there dawned the most beautiful day of all the days of my life. How perfectly I remember even the smallest details of those…
— Therese of Lisieux
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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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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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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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He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got…
— Pierre Salinger
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Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.
— Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
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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
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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
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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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They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and…
— Argus Hamilton
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Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other…
— Peg Bracken
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I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in…
— Eugene Delacroix
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A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar…
— Fanny Kemble
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
— Pamela Hansford Johnson
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