Mistress Quotes
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By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.
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No lady she had had to do with had ever had such a thing on her dressing-table. Powder was different, because one needed powder sometimes for other things besides one’s face, and also one powdered babies, and they, poor lambs, couldn’t be suspected of wanting to appear different from what God had made them. But a lip-stick! Red stuff. What actresses put on, and those who were no better than they should be. Her mistress and a lip-stick—what would Miss Virginia say?
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Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?
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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.
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Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
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I have this mistress: show business.
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The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.
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When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
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Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.
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Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.
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I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
