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Quotes About Mistresses

I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them an escape route.
~ Kate Zambreno
These Oscars bore the names, one of Felix Tholomyes, of Toulouse; the second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a flower; Fameuil idolized Zephine, an abridgment of Josephine; Tholomyes had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair.
~ Victor Hugo
One of your functions as a pleasure sub is to provide sexual satisfaction upon the request of any Dominant who requires your services. Remember, this isn't about your sexual gratification. It's about obeying the desires and needs of the Masters and Mistresses who have invited you into their private paradise. That's all you need to hold on to—that you serve at our pleasure. That service in and of itself should be enough for the true submissive.
~ Claire Thompson
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
~ H.H. Munro (Saki)
So, is Hollywood anti-religion? Not in my opinion. But unlike, say, politicians and preachers who talk faith before going off to speak in tongues to their mistresses, Hollywood just doesn't wear its faith on its sleeve.
~ John Ridley
curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
~ William Faulkner
If you had such a secret, I And all my fiendish flock, my incubi, Succubi, imps and cacodemons, would have leapt Out of our bath of brimming brimstone, crying Eureka, cherchez, la femme!—Emperors Would be colonizing you, their mistresses Patronizing you, ministers of state Governmentalizing you. And you Would be eulogized, lionized, probably Canonized for your divine mishap.
~ Christopher Fry
Once the Yankees arrived, masters and mistresses detected examples of such behavior almost everywhere—in the defection of the favorites, in the demeanor and language of the slaves who remained, in their refusal to submit to punishment, in their failure to obey orders promptly (or at all), and, most frequently, in their unwillingness to work "as usual.
~ Leon F. Litwack
If you're a hero you can be an idiot, behave badly, ruin your personal life, have any number of mistresses and talk about yourself all the time, and nobody minds. Heroes are immune. They have wide shoulders and plenty of hair and wherever they go a crowd gathers. Mostly they enjoy the company of other men, although attractive women are part of their reward.
~ Jeanette Winterson
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?
~ Pierre Salinger
You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein Because he hates America he loves mistresses and he wears a beret. He is French people.
~ Conan O'Brien
to his great joy that he was the richest prince in Europe, with an inheritance in the vicinity of forty or fifty million thalers (between £8,000,000 and £10,000,000), an almost unheard of sum for the times. The Prince moved his court, his officials, his mistresses and bastards from Hanau to Cassel; and because he was short of space commissioned an Italian architect to present him with plans for a fine new palace.
~ Unknown
Death and madness are his only mistresses.
~ Unknown
History has a way of forgetting the mistresses of great men. Even if they have talent.
~ Lynn Cullen