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.

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.

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

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.

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

I will have here but one mistress and no master.

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

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.

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

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

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

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.