Mistress Quotes - page 2

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers. (Clarence Darrow)
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily. View quote
Stendhal
We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [pointing] keeps his garden He [pointing] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king. View quote
Peter Weiss
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity. View quote
Anton Chekhov
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. View quote
Anton Chekhov
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Writing a book is an adventure it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant. View quote
Winston Churchill
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. (William Wycherley)
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. View quote
William Wycherley
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife. View quote
Cedric Hardwicke
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress. View quote
Leonard Slatkin
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. View quote
Les Paul
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. View quote
Oskar Werner
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. View quote
Marquis de Sade
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)
Mistress of the Indies, Spain swarmed with beggars. Yet, verging to decay, she had an ominous and appalling strength. Her condition was that of an athletic man penetrated with disease, which had not yet unstrung the thews and sinews formed in his days of vigor. View quote
Francis Parkman
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. View quote
Susanna Moodie
New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is once again expressing outrage at an art exhibit, this time at a painting in which Jesus is depicted as a naked woman. Said the mayor, "This trash is not the sort of thing that I want to look at when I go to the museum with my mistress." View quote
Tina Fey
The untented Kosmos my abode, I pass, a wilful stranger: My mistress still the open road And the bright eyes of danger. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson