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Quotes About Mistress

So be it.' She faded into silence. I could feel what she wanted to say. She wished to apologise for letting her anger get the better of her, and for sending us here to die, but the word 'sorry' was too alien to an inquisitor's tongue. 'Hyperion?' +Mistress?+ 'Hiljah kah uhtganjen mev tarvahettan.' My laughter carried over the vox. Greet the end with courage. Fenrisian poetry at its blunt best.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Solitude is a sublime mistress but an intolerable wife
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity is a cold mistress, but Liberty inspires delightful bed-play.
~ Walter Jon Williams
Is everybody on the watch to make sure that the novice mistress and the prioress, just to name two, have appropriate leisure? Are they getting proper rest?
~ Walter Wagner
He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad.
~ James Dashner
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
~ Alison Weir
Mistress Blackthorn? Fool. Who else would it be?
~ Juliet Marillier
(Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.
~ Richelle Mead
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
~ Ben Jonson
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
A sailor's love for the sea is only matched by his mistress's salty kiss.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
~ Cedric Hardwicke
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
~ Stanley Baldwin
A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
~ Salman Rushdie, Shame
I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.
~ Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
He had failed. He had awakened with the sudden knowledge of his master's peril. He had followed the urge of the call. And all at once he had realized that for some reason he cold not hope to lead his mistress to the man who so sorely needed her aid. Perplexed, heartsick, he had crawled back; helpless to do more.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
He would not confess, even to himself, that age was beginning to hamper him so cruelly. And he sought to do all the things he had once done—if the Mistress or the Master were looking. But when he was alone, or with the other dogs, he spared himself every needless step. And he slept a great deal.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
And proud his mistress' orders to perform,Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
~ Alexander Pope
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
~ William Wycherley
SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too? PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante is always to do whatever her mistress does- weep when she weeps, smile when she smiles, go mad when she goes mad.-Now, Madam Confidante! But keep your madness in the background, if you please.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She had been the "muse" of a writer for a while. You hardly heard his name anymore. He was quite famous at the time, although possibly more famous for his lifestyle than his works. He was unfaithful and drank from breakfast to bedtime. Boozing and whoring, he said, the Rights of Man. She had been one of his trophies, "muse" a fancy word for mistress. He lived in Chelsea but had a wife and three small children tucked away in the country somewhere.
~ Kate Atkinson
The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.
~ Heloise
Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.
~ William Shakespeare
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
~ William Wycherley