Mistress Quotes - Page 4

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.

when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

The FBI demonstrated this by taking down the former head of the CIA [General David Petraeus] over classified information given to his mistress. Almost no-one is untouchable. The FBI is always trying to demonstrate that no-one can resist us. But Hillary Clinton very conspicuously resisted the FBI's investigation, so there's anger within the FBI because it made the FBI look weak. We've published about 33,000 of Clinton's emails when she was Secretary of State.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

Want is the mistress of invention

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.