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Mistress Quotes - Page 8

You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.

Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.161, St. Martin's Press

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.8, OUP Oxford

Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

"Star-spangled Promenader". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2001.

I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of ’sex slave’ and ’prostitute’ so much. I was a mistress!

"Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

John Steinbeck (1953). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck”, New York : Viking Press

So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.

John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.483, e-artnow

Look upon me, Mistress. Watch as I wither!

J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1348, Penguin

Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.

Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.66, Penguin