Mistress Quotes

Art is a jealous mistress. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. View quote
Henry Adams
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
When a man marries his mistress it creates a job vacancy. View quote
James Goldsmith
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress. View quote
Francis Bacon
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one. View quote
George Etherege
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress. View quote
Henry Fielding
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. View quote
Eliza Farnham
Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids. (Jerome)
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me. View quote
William Lilly
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. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words. View quote
Charles Sumner
I will not say with Lord Hale, that "the law will admit of no rival, and nothing to go even with it;" but I will say, that it is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favours, but by a lavish homage. View quote
Joseph Story
Plough not the seas, sow not the sands, Leave off your idle pain; Seek other mistress for your minds, Love's service is in vain. View quote
Robert Southwell
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. View quote
Freda Adler
But You know, Landscape is my mistress - 't is to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man. View quote
John Constable
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world. View quote
André Maurois
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. (Samuel Richardson)
The Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistress. View quote
Saki
When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy. View quote
Sacha Guitry
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. View quote
Jane Austen
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game. View quote
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran