Mistress Quotes - Page 3

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.

I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.

For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.

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

Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly taking down the framed examples of fine embroideries, samplers, and needlework from teh hallway wall and tucking them under her arm. "Mistress! Come on! You've got to leave!" She calmly turns and faces me. "Why?" she asks. "The British are coming?" "Only one, Mistress," I say

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux memes.]

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

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

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.

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

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.

Out of all of the stuff I have done in my whole 12 years, the Mistress series I and II are the most enjoyable processes I've ever been through and definitely, I'm most proud of that music.

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

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.

Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.