Top 100 Quotes About Mistress
#2. Yet she (Princess Diana) suffered one ancient lament of many princess brides--- her husband didn't love her, hadn't wanted to marry her, rarely slept with her, and far prefered his mistress.
Eleanor Herman
#3. 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.
Eliza Farnham
#4. If the theater is the refuge of the conversationalist whose friend is mute and whose mistress is insipid, then conversation, even the most exquisite, is the pleasure of men without imagination.
Marcel Proust
#5. It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What'd you choose to do with yours?
Philippa Gregory
#6. Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle.
Anthony Liccione
#7. Strange that I should choose you for the confidante of all this, young lady; passing strange that you should listen to me quietly, as if it were the most usual thing in the world for a man like me to tell stories of his opera - mistress to a quaint, inexperienced girl like you!
Charlotte Bronte
#8. What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#9. Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.
Louis Sabin
#10. Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its housekeeper, and language its poorly paid secretary
Gerald Edelman
#11. So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
John Keats
#12. You're far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You're far better suited as a wife.
Lisa Kleypas
#13. The man was an enigma. One minute he was looking at her as though he would
kiss her senseless, the next he refused to even talk to her, much less look at her.
Charlotte Featherstone
#14. It is written that a wife shall be submissive to her husband. It is nowhere written that his mistress should be.
Johann Sigurjonsson
#15. An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.
Anthony Trollope
#18. A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress and only after that a friend.
Anton Chekhov
#19. You'd better take over here as temporary Mistress, Joan, he said to Professor Aiken.
Garth Nix
#20. Humph. Looking around for the sword, are you? Well, it's a better idea than thrashing around at random.'
'The Prince,' said Master Horace repressively, 'will inform us of his intentions when he wishes to do so. We are here to serve, not to quest
'
'Yes, it's the sword,' Edoran told her.
Hilari Bell
#21. Grief is a hard mistress to have, Rome. She eventually wants all you have to give her.
Jay Crownover
#22. Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust.
William Batchelder Greene
#23. Thank you all for such a warm and generous welcome. As we all are perfectly aware, my first act as mistress of the house shall be to bed your master. Do excuse.
Alissa Johnson
#25. I am Athena. Before that I was Thea, singer and slave and lover of gladiators. Before that I was Leah, daughter of Benjamin and Rachael of Masada. I am as mortal as you, you common little man. And I fear no one!
Kate Quinn
#26. Hey, Volusian, you haven't been checking me out, have you?"
He gave me his trademark bland stare. "I assure you, mistress, the only allure your bare flesh has for me is to remind me how easy it will be to slice open."
I laughed. If not for the fact he was actually serious, he'd be so much fun.
Richelle Mead
#27. Ethan, this is my favorite moment, before all of my other favorite moments are created with a new client. You are my work of art, mine to possess, sculpt, mend, bend, and make beg for mercy. You will adore worshiping, pleasing and serving me." ~ Mistress
Ruby Madden
#28. Married! Not to retreat, but to be the mistress of a lord's domain; not to be safe in a convent, but to live as some lord's breeding sow.
Katherine Arden
#29. The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
Of aid from them-She was the Universe.
Lord Byron
#30. El, you are telling me to run away with a man to become his mistress."
"I am telling you to be happy. Even if it lasts only a little while. We must snatch what we can when we have the chance. Life is so very lonely when we don't.
Jennifer Ashley
#31. Mistress, I have never asked anything of you in my servitude. But now, I beg you this: do not make me keep passing these adolescent sentiments back and forth all night.
Richelle Mead
#32. Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!
Benjamin Constant
#33. I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.
Anita Baker
#34. Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry Adams
#35. 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.
Michael Kinsley
#36. 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
#37. Every house, to be a true home, needs a mistress.
Laura Frantz
#38. Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
Lord Chesterfield
#39. Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
Ben Jonson
#40. through to 8, without continuing once. After this has been done, you can play on World 9. World 10 And finally, to unlock the
The Cheat Mistress
#41. Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#42. Have I shocked you, mistress? Do you still believe you can heal him? A virgin who's seen nothing of the world, a man who's seen the very worst of it?" John demanded, his voice hard edged.
Lecia Cornwall
#43. Karma can be an ill-timed mistress who always calls when your Mother-in-law is the first to answer the phone ... . and it would be a completely sad story had it not been so surreally hilarious.
Josh Stern
#44. Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.
Eliphas Levi
#45. Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.
Germaine Greer
#46. I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.
Oskar Werner
#47. Neptune can sense that I love him; his multiple desires are perfectly clear to me. What charms me about the whole business is that he stubbornly insists on remaining a dog, whereas his mistress would like to make a gentleman of him.
Muriel Barbery
#48. I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips ... I'm twisted.
Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress.
Ab-Soul
#49. Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.
Patrick Rothfuss
#50. I'm suggesting that you let someone inside that empty room you call a heart. Whether you make her your wife or your mistress, a man's bed is decidedly warmer if there's a fire burning in something other than his cock.
Sabrina Jeffries
#51. The grass is wet on the hill. The sky has no end. For the dog who waits for his mistress, Madge, noon comes again.
Andre Alexis
#52. I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.
Oscar Levant
#53. Mistress Creation keeps calling my name ... i long for her, and she, for me ... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon
Jaeda DeWalt
#54. Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo
#55. Philosophize: you are a mistress, part of a great hysterical you mean historical tradition.
Lorrie Moore
#56. I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.
Manisha Koirala
#58. I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented - the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.
Catherine Breillat
#59. What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
William Osler
#60. Never take the mistress if you can get the maid.
James M. Cain
#61. How did you ask a man, "Oh, by the way, did you ask me to marry you the other day or were you merely suggesting I become your mistress?" Formality was the key to surviving this, she hoped.
Anne Gracie
#62. Her hotline rang.
"Mistress Nora's House of Ill Repute. How may I direct your cock?"
"You aren't cute," Kingsley said.
"I beg to differ. I'm fucking precious.
Tiffany Reisz
#63. 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.
Margaret Cavendish
#64. On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.
Deborah Sampson
#65. How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time or death. Thus, the work of the painter is nobler than that of nature, its mistress.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#66. You think I should use magick like mine to open a tomb?" Mari asked in a scoffing tone. Mistress of bluffing, working it here. "That'd be like calling you in to lift a feather.
Kresley Cole
#67. Everything's going to change, Sazed, and I can't stop it." Sazed smiled fondly. "Then, Mistress," he said quietly, "simply enjoy what you have. The future will surprise you, I think.
Brandon Sanderson
#68. She regards me quietly and then she quotes something Mistress Coyle once said to me. "We are the choices we make." It takes me a second to realize she's just said goodbye.
Patrick Ness
#69. I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol.
"That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.
Terry Pratchett
#70. Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.
Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!
Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!
William Shakespeare
#71. Something clicked in my brain. "I remember where I've seen you before. You're Curran's ... " - lover, mistress, honey-bunny - "significant other." Dear God, what could the Beast Lord's concubine possibly want from me?
Ilona Andrews
#72. My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!
Tamora Pierce
#73. Where's my white out?"
"Chapter ten is missing!"
"Has anyone seen my socks?"
Linda spun around.
Mistress Yvonne gripped her shoulders. "This is a regular occurrence. No need to get involved."
Faint shouts echoed down the hall. "Leprechauns!
Marlene Simonette
#74. Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die
Tamora Pierce
#75. People gossip about me.
I am sorry for what I have done;
I have taken three thin steps
And landed myself in the tavern of my mistress
Tsangyang Gyatso
#76. 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.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#77. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress's head,
Jane Austen
#78. Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#79. Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days; the more the pity that some honest neighbours will not make them friends.
William Shakespeare
#80. Self-doubt is a persuasive mistress; careful not to shag her or you'll never get your balls back. - Simon Hunt
Dannika Dark
#81. The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
Darren Shan
#82. But, Mistress, do not be seen to stray too far from the real that is clear to others, or you may stand accused of the real that is clear to you.
Jeanette Winterson
#83. I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
Jane Austen
#84. When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.
Rufus Wainwright
#85. I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
Paul Gauguin
#86. Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Martin Luther
#88. A woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.
Elsie De Wolfe
#89. Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#90. Slave. Minion. Fiend. The others who have come before me have been called such things, but I prefer to think of myself as a disciple; a devout follower of my voluptuous mistress.
Charlotte Featherstone
#91. Outside of monsters, meat is meat. Science is a powerful teacher. And hunger is a cruel mistress.
Lila Bowen
#92. To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle
Patrick Ness
#93. Grimspace is a bitch mistress who carries unearthly delight in one hand and a crop in the other.
Ann Aguirre
#94. You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.
Edith Wharton
#95. 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
#96. The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.
Stendhal
#97. People often say that, by pointing out to a man the faults of his mistress, you succeed only in strengthening his atachment to her, because he does not believe you.
Marcel Proust
#99. Power is the mistress that stalks us all.
Tim Sanders
#100. I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
