Best 121 quotes in «mistress quotes» category

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.

David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was serving as CIA director when he stepped down suddenly following revelations that he`d had an extramarital affair. That same investigation that turned up evidence of the affair also eventually turned up evidence that General. Petraeus had passed classified information to his mistress.

Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

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

Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.

Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?

Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

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

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.

Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.

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.

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.

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

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

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.

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

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.

I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.

I remember saying to my husband, ''Why? Why have you got this lady around?'' And he said, ''Well, I refuse to be the Prince of Wales who never had a mistress.''

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

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.

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

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

I have this mistress: show business.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

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

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.

I just figured, for the most part, mainstream networks stopped using [mistress word]. Those are small brush fires. The election made me realize we've got forest fires that we collectively need to be focused on.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.

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.

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.

Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

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.

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

My local paper, The New York Times, Yahoo News, CBS, and The Washington Post, all agreed to stop using the word 'mistress.' The big one was the Associated Press. They made a style change, and it's the gold standard that sets the guide for news outlets around the world. That's a small step for the American language, a medium step for feminism, and a huge step for me personally.

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

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

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