Quotes About Wife And Mistress

#1. If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Lord Chesterfield

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

Hector Hugh Munro

#8. You can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress. There's always a little corner which remains a secret to the world and is only known to those two.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

William Shakespeare

#10. 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

#11. Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

Brenda Jackson

#12. 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

#13. Shouldn't he want to know about something that has happened to his mother, that will happen to his wife, his sisters, his daughter and, I went on morosely, if ever he has an affair, even to his mistress?

Azar Nafisi

#14. When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

Arthur Golden

#15. Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable ... .

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#17. Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.

Andre Breton

#18. Your wife doesn't want to hear a word about how hot your mistress is, and vice versa.

John Benjamin Hickey

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. A wife is meant to be cherished and to be treated with a gentle hand, while a mistress is a convenient cunt to rut in.

Sylvia Day

#22. No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

Christina Stead

#23. I'll take a foot fetish with a man and his wife over a foot fetish with a man and his mistress any day. I don't care what they do. You go with it with your marriage and have a good time.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#24. He wondered if his own child would like to
have a dog, then shook off the thought. He was years
away from having a child. He needed a wife first - and
obtaining her would be far more trouble than obtaining
a mistress. Here, he had yet to get a mistress.

Lorraine Heath

#25. Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.
Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man if he cannot make his wife his mistress. Seeking variety is a sign of impotence.

Honore De Balzac

#26. And my wife ... well, I guess she'd earned her scene with me, but still; did she really have that much reason to be angry? I mean, when she married me she knew what she was getting into, didn't she? She had been my mistress, for Chrissake! That spoke volumes, didn't it?

Jordan Belfort

#27. 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

#28. The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.

Heloise

#29. Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she
bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!"
-Royce Westmoreland

Judith McNaught

#30. A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#31. Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.

Anton Chekhov

#32. I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.

Cedric Hardwicke

#33. 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

#34. 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