Mistress Quotes

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

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

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

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

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

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

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.