Mistress Quotes

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

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.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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.

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.

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.

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

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

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

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.

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

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.