Mistress Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.