Jealous Mistress Quotes

#1. Fame is a jealous mistress
And will brook no rival.

Thiruvalluvar

#2. 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.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#3. Art is a jealous mistress.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" ... but I will say that it is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favors, but by lavish homage.

Joseph Story

#6. I want to reach the top with it all--business, family and faith!

Joy Harris

#7. It's okay," he whispers. "You'll be okay."
Truth is a jealous, vicious mistress that never ever sleeps, is what I don't tell him. I'll never by okay.

Tahereh Mafi

#8. Truth is a jealous, vicious mistress that never, ever sleeps.

Tahereh Mafi

#9. Because the thing about miracles is that they're not answers, no matter how much we want them to be.

Robyn Schneider

#10. Religion really means to rejoin that which seems to be separate.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#11. You really do have some pretty fancy words lately."
"Yeah." He put the mistletoe in his pocket and pulled her in closer. "And here's three more ... I love you.

Jill Shalvis

#12. Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.

Clarence Darrow

#13. Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

Timothy Keller

#14. Making new friends is tough. You don't really know who to trust when you're away from people that you love a lot.

Selena Gomez

#15. Ye Gods and Little Fishes," said Sir Henry, "can it be? George, it's my own particular, one and only four starred Pussy. The super Pussy of all old Pussies...

Agatha Christie

#16. There's no word worth your life.

Dalton Trumbo

#17. Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Josh Billings

#18. Time
tick tock
says the clock
whirrling by
never shy
quietly pass
layer upon grass
until time has gone.
than you die.

Kayla Dunn

#19. Giving him our plans is giving him ourselves.

Suzanne Eller

#20. Amazing, isn't it, when you think about it, how the world keeps on turning, no matter how fucked up things get?" In

Richard Russo