A Quote by Natalie Clifford Barney

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

Natalie Clifford Barney

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Being Bilingual Either Having Like Mistress Never Sure Wife

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Natalie Clifford Barney
American - Novelist
October 31, 1876 - February 2, 1972

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It`s like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

Stephen King

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two he's also having a fling with a fringe tootsie, both the wife and the mistress are outraged and the combination lover, husband, and cheat may well wind up with a large French bread knife between his ribs.

Groucho Marx

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've never heard of the wife looking up the mistress to become friends, but I like it.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

Honore de Balzac

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.

Patrick O'Brian

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

Cedric Hardwicke

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

Julian Barnes

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

Ingmar Bergman

I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to choose.

Mark Salling

For me, it's about having energy in the field and making sure I'm having fun and making sure everyone else around is having fun, whether it be telling a joke or something like that. It's to make sure we're all upbeat and we're ready to go.

Steve Smith

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Ann Landers

In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the two Lands of Egypt, Mistress of Shelter, Mistress of Heaven, Mistress of the House of Life, Mistress of the word of God. She was the Unique. In all Her great and wonderful works She was a wiser magician and more excellent than any other God.