A Quote by Peter Prange

One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress. — © Peter Prange
One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.

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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.
Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .
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.
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.
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
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.
A bond as important as that of a husband and wife, is the bond between siblings.
My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day.
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.
I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.
Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.
A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
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MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress.
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.
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