Mistress Quotes

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

Wife, Memory, Servant

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

Her, Thinks, Loves

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Anton Chekhov

Tired, Wife, Night

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce

Marriage, Two, Making

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Power, Hard, Away

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

Friend, Friends, While

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

Husband, Himself, Second

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hate, Her, Ready

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

Faith, Good, Dead

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

Night, Country, Away

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon

Good, Poor, Hand

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

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Money, Important, Automobile

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
William Hazlitt

Friend, Often, Themselves

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Samuel Richardson

Men, Wife, Bear

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

Dreams, Her, Weaknesses

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

Good, Wife, Together

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

Life, Live, Jealous

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

Good, Beautiful, Wife

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

Life, Happiness, Through

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

Faithful, Constant, Threats

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

Nothing, She, Madness

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

Student, Lover, Fickle

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

Husband, Lie, Down

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
James Goldsmith

Job, Creates, Marries

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

Life, Beauty, Experience

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry Adams

Simplicity, Betrayed, Deceitful

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
Elsie de Wolfe

Happiness, Men, Home

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

Life, Heart, Human

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

Married, Films, Theater

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