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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
George Etherege

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
William Wycherley

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

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

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

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

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

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
John Wilkes

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

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

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

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