Mistress Quotes - Page 2

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

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

Art is a jealous mistress.

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

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

I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

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

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.

When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere! Importune me no more!

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

Medicine is a jealous mistress. It demands all your time.

Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.

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