A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
Lord Byron

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
William Wycherley

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
William Lilly

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
Julian Barnes

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

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
Cedric Hardwicke

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.
Sextus Propertius

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

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
Akhenaton

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.
Oskar Werner

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
Susanna Moodie

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

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

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

In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.
Felix Marti-Ibanez

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden