Top 100 Quotes About Mistress
#1. I know I'm supposed to be the new Mistress of Revels! But that doesn't mean I have pockets full of muffins!
Lisa Mantchev
#2. Truly," remarked Nandi as we entered a darkened tunnel, "it is amazing that you have not died yet, mistress." "Well, hang in there. The night is young.
Richelle Mead
#5. An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world who
knows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let's
face it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damn
attention!
Aditi Mathur Kumar
#6. Sylvia Day is the undisputed mistress of tender, erotic romance. Her books are a luxury every woman deserves.
Teresa Medeiros
#7. What's your name, pictsie?' 'Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin Mac Feegle, mistress.' 'You're very small, aren't you?' 'Only for my height, mistress.
Terry Pratchett
#8. Neither good nor ill is done to us by Fortune: she merely offers us the matter and the seeds: our soul, more powerful than she is, can mould it or sow them as she pleases, being the only cause and mistress of our happy state or our unhappiness.
Michel De Montaigne
#9. I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
Alison Weir
#10. He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.
Margaret Benson
#11. (Men without ambition are boring)
And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.
Richelle Mead
#12. The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.
Gwen Raverat
#13. She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master.
Georgette Heyer
#14. What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling
Elizabeth Gaskell
#15. DeVere smiled. A mistress is a fine thing, Ned, but a married mistress with a compacent husband is the very best bargain. They cost far less tokeep, make fewer demands, and should any inconvenient package arrive, it may easily be presented to the cuckold, an altogether neat arrangement.
Victoria Vane
#16. Here you are. Would you like some pickles?"
"Pickles gives me the wind something awful."
"In that case - "
"Oh, I wasn't saying no," Mistress Weatherwax said, taking two large pickled cucumbers.
Terry Pratchett
#17. Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.
Charles Caleb Colton
#18. My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#19. The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
H.L. Mencken
#20. The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.
Eugene Kennedy
#22. Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
Heinrich Heine
#23. Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.
Duke Ellington
#24. You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
Violet Trefusis
#25. Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.
Robert Southwell
#26. A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
Anton Chekhov
#27. This session is over. You don't make demands of a Mistress for the purpose of sport.
Sarah Michelle Lynch
#28. A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
William Hazlitt
#29. What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.
Betty Ford
#30. You hold your life cheaply, mistress," the voice said dryly. "He's a bad-tempered devil, and his affections are often false." "Nonsense," I said. "He's a lovely brute.
Susanna Kearsley
#31. Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.
Dov Davidoff
#32. I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [ the book] ROOM was the result.
Emma Donoghue
#33. Indeed, sir, I would be more than willing to do whatever I can to speed my mistress and myself away from this accursed country and away from the likes of you." She looked Alex directly in the eye. "You, sir, ride with death on your shoulder, and it does not make for pleasant company.
Marsha Canham
#34. What do you do with the kid who can't read? ... Well, what he did with the kid who couldn't read was to make her his mistress. What Farley did was to make her his punching bag. What the Cuban did was to make her his whore, or one among them
so Coleman believed more often than not.
Philip Roth
#35. One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.
Marcel Proust
#36. Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
Freda Adler
#37. Jesse Jackson also said he thought Barack Obama was talking down to black people by lecturing them on things like fatherhood and being a responsible husband. Jesse thought it was insulting, not only to him, but to his former mistress and their love child.
Jay Leno
#38. When I was fair and young, and favor graced me,
Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;
But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore,
Go, go, go seek some otherwhere!
Importune me no more!
Elizabeth I
#39. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
Vincent Bugliosi
#40. But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.
John Constable
#41. Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.
William Shakespeare
#42. My name is Jerrod Ross, Squire from Pendern Hall. And who might you be, madam?"
"I? I am Sandra Cranston, Mistress of the walk-up second story flat," she replied coldly.~Timeless Heart
Karyn Gerrard
#43. God doesn't measure big the way people measure big. Jesus had just twelve followers." He blinked a few times. "Fame is a demanding mistress.
Karen Kingsbury
#44. From The Mistress Bride ... "you are my heart, my life, my soul.. I am your other half
Michelle Reid
#45. It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.
Henri De Regnier
#46. Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.
Martial
#47. He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad.
James Dashner
#48. Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#49. One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants from all subsequent trouble.
Kate Sanborn
#50. Mistress Agatha Brown, she was Church of England, but she just done gone to the Catholics. And it seems they don't hold with places like 3½, not even when they're decently run.
Ian Fleming
#51. Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid --
Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade."
"Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall,
"But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all.
Rudyard Kipling
#52. The old sailors who traveled Earth's seas were said to have loved the ocean. The great captains said they were married to the sea or called the sea their mistress. Modern sailors held no such fantasies about outer space. Space did not love or hate, it simply killed anything it touched.
Steven L. Kent
#53. She was a Mistress who needed a Master. Who needed him.
Joey W. Hill
#55. Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
William Faulkner
#57. Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#58. A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other hand, men spend half their income on the wives when the wife finds out about the mistress. So it all balances out.
Jay Leno
#59. She is the epitome of injustice, is my mistress. I never sulk, I am no glutton, and at that time I was barely thirty years of age, although to a fourteen-year-old anyone above twenty is an ancient, and I admit that, when it comes to food, I do have the refined tastes of a connoisseur.
Wilbur Smith
#60. Life, the true mistress of all real men - would have tricked me as it tricks everyone else. We
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#61. There will be no kneeling in front of me tonight, Mistress Isabel. You told me you wanted control, so tonight I'll give you control. Complete control.
Ella Dominguez
#62. Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
William Wycherley
#63. To Fate, a fickle mistress whose sense of justice is exceeded only by her sense of humor.
Teresa Medeiros
#64. A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore De Balzac
#65. A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.
Alexandre Dumas
#66. Love-that which biologists, nervous about being misunderstood call "attachment"-fuels the bond between dog and master or mistress.
John Bradshaw
#67. 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.
Les Paul
#68. Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
William Shakespeare
#69. England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.
Thomas Gray
#70. That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
John Wilkes
#71. Stay away from Mistress Laera," said Frank, "or I'll find grounds to sue your ass off. Possibly for damaging my fist when I pound your pretty boy face in.
Sindra Van Yssel
#73. The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
Chuck Palahniuk
#74. Tonight was the CNN primary debate with the four remaining candidates. It was kind of a change for Newt Gingrich. Usually when he's arguing with three people at once, it's his wife, his ex-wife, and his mistress.
Jay Leno
#75. The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.
Andrew Sarris
#76. Mistress; please: are you divine, or mortal?
Homer
#77. Sandy's was one of those places that made poor, white trash feel like high-class consumers. This was the kind of place you'd take your mistress to, but never your wife. Wives expected better. Mistresses were impressed by the blandness of the over-priced wine and the vast Italian menu options.
Alistair Cross
#78. Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.
John B. S. Haldane
#79. Out of all of the stuff I have done in my whole 12 years, the Mistress series I and II are the most enjoyable processes I've ever been through and definitely, I'm most proud of that music
Jay Sean
#80. Like those dreaded dinner party words 'Longtime Companion' or Partner.' Sometimes I just want to scream, 'is she your wife or is she your mistress? Please clarify the nature of your bloody relationship!
Suzanne Stroh
#81. The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.
Ingmar Bergman
#82. She paused briefly, then took a sip. "Mistress Vin is being modest, Master Hammond," Sazed
Brandon Sanderson
#83. But never try to answer for what is between a husband and his wife, or a lover and his mistress. There is always one little corner which remains hidden from all the world, and is known only to the two of them.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#85. I ain't know what it is to be a girl Mistress Grandsol. I pass straight from child to woman without even a pause for girl between. Girl is a privilege I never know.
Robert Antoni
#86. Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
Michel De Montaigne
#87. Then she turns to Midnight and perches delicately on his lowered back. He rises, arches his neck, and carries Marlena from the big top. The rest of the horses follow, once again grouped by color, crowding each other to stay close to their mistress.
Sara Gruen
#88. No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Marquis De Sade
#89. She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, 'she is my betrothed.'
'Sometimes one and the same thing,' said Morrel, with a smile.
'Not with us, sir,' replied Dantes.
Alexandre Dumas
#90. There was no etiquette guide in the universe that told you how to handle waking up in a house you'd fled from as a teenager with your estranged sister in one room accross the hall and your husband's pregnant teenage mistress in the other.
Tiffany Baker
#91. It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.
Voltaire
#92. Mistress Allen was only an ordinary provincial manor lady, bent on nothing more sinister than retrieving money of which she felt defrauded, and in the process either quarreling with or using people.
Anya Seton
#93. Another writer argued in an 1895 issue of the Cosmopolitan that by riding a bicycle, a woman would "become mistress of herself," transformed into a "rational, useful being restored to health and sanity.
Frances E. Willard
#94. Am I to be your secret mistress?"
He shakes his head. "No, my love. I will be yours.
Sherry D. Ficklin
#95. Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.
Jean Rhys
#96. Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
Rudyard Kipling
#97. Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other
Anton Chekhov
#98. Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Samuel Richardson
#99. I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of 'sex slave' and 'prostitute' so much. I was a mistress!
Kola Boof
#100. Who are you? he asked.
I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on.
Eoin Colfer
