Mistress Quotes
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A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.
Plutarch -
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 are the fitter for conversation by em.
William Wycherley
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England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
Cedric Hardwicke -
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.
Paul Gauguin -
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
Rudyard Kipling -
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
Elsie de Wolfe -
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?
Christina Stead -
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.
William Hazlitt
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The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.
Niccolò Paganini -
Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.
Carl R. Trueman -
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.
Susanna Moodie -
I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
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.
Vincent Van Gogh -
If you were the man of my heart, I’d be your wife, not mistress. I don’t share well.
Beverly Jenkins