Mistress Quotes - Page 6

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.

A young mistress is better than an old master.

Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

Humor is the mistress of tears.

Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted – and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.

My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.

My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.

Unanimity is the mistress of strength.