Mistress Quotations | Page 2

But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.

...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence...

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

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.

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

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.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

Take the back door," she said. "Claire, you and your strang friend-" "Eve," they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her fst for a bump. "Or, you could call me Eve the Great, Mistress of All She Surveys. Eve for short.

I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.

His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

I have this mistress: show business.

Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die

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

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?

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

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

Hey, Volusian, you haven't been checking me out, have you?" He gave me his trademark bland stare. "I assure you, mistress, the only allure your bare flesh has for me is to remind me how easy it will be to slice open." I laughed. If not for the fact he was actually serious, he'd be so much fun.

Mistress, I have never asked anything of you in my servitude. But now, I beg you this: do not make me keep passing these adolescent sentiments back and forth all night.

Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the humiliation of a succubus who moonlights as a Christmas elf?" "You always said I should quit the bookstore and find something else to do," I reminded him. "Yes, but that was because I thought you'd go on to do something respectable. Like become a stripper or the Mayor's mistress.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

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

I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

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

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

Humor is the mistress of tears.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

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.

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

In the dark, all cats are grey.

In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

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.

Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run inot, Thou has not loved. Of if thou has't not sat as I do now, Wearying they hearer in thy mistress's praise, Thou has not loved. Of if thou hast not broke from company Abruptly, as my passion now makes me, Thou has not loved. (Silvius)

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

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

As I was constantly told that my mistress Polla indulged in improper connection with a young libertine; I surprised them and found it was as proper as my own

They are clearly very much in love. It must be the end of a series of nightmare years for Camilla, every day reading in the papers about being the mistress this and that. They are entitled to have their own happiness the same as everyone else.

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 order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

Life is the mistress to be wooed.

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

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

Art is a jealous mistress.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.

Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for every thing I do.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.