Mistress Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

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

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

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

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.

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

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

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

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

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

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

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

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.