Mistress Quotes

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.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

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.

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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.

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

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

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

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.