Mistress Quotes
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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 are the fitter for conversation by em.
William Wycherley
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Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.
Kate Morton
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A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.
Honore de Balzac
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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.
Paul Gauguin
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I have this mistress: show business.
Ray Romano
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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.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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.
Stanley Baldwin
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Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
Rudyard Kipling
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The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.
Niccolò Paganini
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Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.
Carl R. Trueman
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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
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
Rudyard Kipling
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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.
Susanna Moodie