Mistress Quotes

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

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.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

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

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

Chess is a beautiful mistress.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original. ... I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ... I don't need time, I need a deadline. ...There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ... Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

Be a mistress to none, but all good to some.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

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.

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

I will have here but one mistress and no master.

Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I’m sober and I’m lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment

I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

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

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.

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

Art is a jealous mistress.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

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

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

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!

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.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

Medicine is a jealous mistress. It demands all your time.

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.