Top 402 Mistress Quotes & Sayings

Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.

Life is the mistress to be wooed.

As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to all men, at all times, and in all places. She is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly. Creation has not displaced her, but is her visible framework and foil. All sounds are her servants, and purveyors, proclaiming not only that their mistress is, but is a rare mistress, and earnestly to be sought after.

MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress.

I have this mistress: show business.

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.

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand and careful guidance of her Master drawing, color is a splendid Mistress, with a mate worthy of herself, her lover, but her Master likewise, the most magnificent Mistress possible, and the result is evident in all the glorious things that spring from their union.

Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

Medicine is a jealous mistress. It demands all your time.

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.

Unanimity is the mistress of strength.

You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Be a mistress to none, but all good to some.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

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.

Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.

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.

Jesse Jackson's in trouble. They're going after this tax thing. Jesse said he will amend his taxes to show the money that he paid to his mistress. See, he has just one mistress. Jesse uses the standard mistress deduction. As opposed to Clinton, who had to itemize.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

Want is the mistress of invention

Art is a jealous mistress.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Chess is a beautiful mistress.

Mistress of the grisly and the glutinous

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.

I will have here but one mistress and no master.

A young mistress is better than an old master.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress.

Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.

Look upon me, Mistress. Watch as I wither!

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

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

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

The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like General David Petraeus because he had a mistress. In France, if a powerful man doesn't have a mistress, he's considered a wimp.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

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

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

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 can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly taking down the framed examples of fine embroideries, samplers, and needlework from teh hallway wall and tucking them under her arm. "Mistress! Come on! You've got to leave!" She calmly turns and faces me. "Why?" she asks. "The British are coming?" "Only one, Mistress," I say

Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

Humor is the mistress of tears.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.