Cruel Mistress Quotes

#1. Outside of monsters, meat is meat. Science is a powerful teacher. And hunger is a cruel mistress.

Lila Bowen

#2. [A]s for my prediction that [the iPhone] would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.

John C. Dvorak

#3. The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#4. Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.

Dov Davidoff

#5. Fashion is a cruel mistress.

Hester Browne

#6. Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

Kate Morton

#7. Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.

Carl R. Trueman

#8. Karma is a cruel mistress.

Kelley York

#9. Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Samuel Morse

#10. No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress' name. Little, alas, they know or heed How far these beauties hers exceed! Fair trees! where s'e'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found.

Andrew Marvell

#11. Lepida, has anyone ever told you that you're a cruel spiteful selfish slut? ... You're vicious. You're unprincipled. You mistreat your slaves and abuse your daughter. And furthermore you're the worst, most neglectful, most criminal wife in Rome. I think we can go now.

Kate Quinn