Cabinets Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

— Arthur Golden

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

— Honore de Balzac

“One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.”

— Peter Prange

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

— Freda Adler

“Men these days expect their wives to be as dazzling as their mistresses.” That's shocking," said the Major. "How on earth will they tell…

— Helen Simonson

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

— Jim Backus

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

— Anonymous

I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" . . . but I will say that it…

— Joseph Story

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

— Robertson Davies

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational…

— Anonymous