Heart Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“Men these days expect their wives to be as dazzling as their mistresses.”

— Helen Simonson

“Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars…

— E.M. Forster

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the…

— Stefan Zweig

“The Angel in the House" Man must be pleased; but him to please Is woman's pleasure; down the gulf Of his condoled necessities She…

— Coventry Patmore

“A wife is meant to be cherished and to be treated with a gentle hand, while a mistress is a convenient cunt to rut…

— Sylvia Day

“He had her alone in the garden. Her moist lips. The moonlight in her eyes. A lesser man would be merely tempted. A greater…

— Diana Holquist

“The man who is not loved soars like a vulture over the mistresses of other men;”

— Victor Hugo

“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its…

— Jane Austen

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The man who indulges us in this natural passion, who invites us into his heart, who, as it were, sets open the gates of…

— Adam Smith