Quotes About Mistress

Outside Milan, the couple visits the gas station where Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress were hanged by an angry mob.

Emma was just like any other mistress; and the charm of novelty, falling down slowly like a dress, exposed only the eternal monotony of passion, always the same forms and the same language.

What happiness there had been in those days! What freedom! What hope! What an abundance of illusions! She had none left now. Each new venture had cost her some of them, each of her successive conditions: as virgin, wife and mistress; she had lost them all along the course of her life, like a traveler who leaves some of his wealth at every inn along the road.

Emma leek op alle andere maîtresses; en nu de bekoring van het nieuwe langzamerhand als een kledingstuk van haar afgleed, kwam de eentonigheid van de hartstocht bloot, die altijd dezelfde vorm heeft, die dezelfde taal spreekt.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

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.

Students of American history may recall that Alexander Hamilton had an affair while in public office, but when he quickly confessed publicly and was forgiven, the issue was pushed aside, much to the consternation of the mistress and her husband who were planning to blackmail Mr. Hamilton.

The sea was his mistress, one with the power to heal, nurture, love, torture… or destroy at her caprice.

My good lady,' interrupted Clent, 'are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of his nativity?' Seconds passed. A beetle flew into Mistress Leap's hair while she stared at Clent, then it struggled free and flew off again. 'Did you lie about when he was born?' translated Mosca.

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

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

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

There is none but me, Myshella the Dark Lady – and I am the mistress.

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

Evelyn Marie wanted to turn him into a gentleman. Well, he wanted to turn her into his mistress.

What are mothers for, if not to help their daughters find mistresses for their husbands?

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

It was apparent the mistress of the house was here in the person of the girl with the white hands. And it seemed she possessed authority, for one unruly youth had fled, the other two lay matronless, as if in abject fear, before her. When she spoke again, her young voice was like a thin knife.

I want you to be my mistress." Of course she had known what was coming; yet, when it came, some radical prudishness within her was offended by the word. She stifled its promptings vigorously. They were unworthy of her — unworthy of her fine, free, emancipated, passionate modernity. What would become of their frank and glorious equality, their high-flown theories, if she refused him? And yet...

You have an odd sense of morality, mistress." "Don't be stupid," she said. "Every sense of morality is odd.

She was, moreover, mistress of a very pretty little fortune, and was accounted clever without detriment to her amiability and amiable without detriment to her wit.