Top Mistress Quotes Collection

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Image of Graham Masterton
Mistress of the grisly and the glutinous
- Graham Masterton
Collection: Mistress
Image of William Lilly
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
- William Lilly
Collection: Mistress
Image of Vincent Bugliosi
My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.
- Vincent Bugliosi
Collection: Mistress
Image of Susanna Centlivre
Want is the mistress of invention
- Susanna Centlivre
Collection: Mistress
Image of Gerald Abrahams
Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.
- Gerald Abrahams
Collection: Mistress
Image of Elizabeth I
I will have here but one mistress and no master.
- Elizabeth I
Collection: Mistress
Image of Harriette Wilson
I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.
- Harriette Wilson
Collection: Mistress
Image of Timothy Garton Ash
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?
- Timothy Garton Ash
Collection: Mistress
Image of Leonard Slatkin
Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.
- Leonard Slatkin
Collection: Mistress
Image of John B. S. Haldane
Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.
- John B. S. Haldane
Collection: Mistress
Image of Ninon de L'Enclos
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.
- Ninon de L'Enclos
Collection: Mistress
Image of Carl R Trueman
Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.
- Carl R Trueman
Collection: Mistress
Image of Terry Pratchett
His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Mistress
Image of J.R. Ward
Look upon me, Mistress. Watch as I wither!
- J.R. Ward
Collection: Mistress
Image of Horace
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
- Horace
Collection: Mistress
Image of Gayle Forman
Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.
- Gayle Forman
Collection: Mistress
Image of William Makepeace Thackeray
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Collection: Mistress
Image of Aiden Wilson Tozer
Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Collection: Mistress
Image of William Shakespeare
Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Mistress
Image of Edith Wharton
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.
- Edith Wharton
Collection: Mistress
Image of William Shakespeare
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?
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Mistress
Image of H. G. Wells
A young mistress is better than an old master.
- H. G. Wells
Collection: Mistress
Image of John Steinbeck
Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Mistress
Image of William Shakespeare
Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Mistress
Image of Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Collection: Mistress
Image of Winston Churchill
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: Mistress
Image of Cassandra Clare
Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.
- Cassandra Clare
Collection: Mistress
Image of Robertson Davies
It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.
- Robertson Davies
Collection: Mistress
Image of John Dryden
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
- John Dryden
Collection: Mistress
Image of Benjamin Disraeli
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.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Collection: Mistress
Image of Barry Goldwater
Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
- Barry Goldwater
Collection: Mistress
Image of Vincent Van Gogh
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.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Collection: Mistress
Image of Robert A. Heinlein
when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Collection: Mistress
Image of Robert A. Heinlein
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Collection: Mistress
Image of Heinrich Heine
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
- Heinrich Heine
Collection: Mistress
Image of Robert A. Heinlein
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Collection: Mistress
Image of Jane Austen
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
- Jane Austen
Collection: Mistress
Image of Ben Jonson
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
- Ben Jonson
Collection: Mistress
Image of Ben Jonson
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
- Ben Jonson
Collection: Mistress
Image of Oscar Levant
I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.
- Oscar Levant
Collection: Mistress
Image of Jay Leno
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.
- Jay Leno
Collection: Mistress
Image of Alphonse de Lamartine
Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Collection: Mistress
Image of Dov Davidoff
Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.
- Dov Davidoff
Collection: Mistress