Quotes about mistress
mistress court frailty
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you. Ben Jonson
mistress language currents
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
mistress compromise truth-is
Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises. Aiden Wilson Tozer
mistress expensive
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute. Edith Wharton
mistress her-beauty may
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
mistress sovereign opinion
Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
mistress calm
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. Jane Austen
mistress would-be facts
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
mistress masters
I will have but one mistress and no master Elizabeth I
mistress disease embrace
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
mistress unanimity
Unanimity is the mistress of strength. Alphonse de Lamartine
mistress fields lilies
Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.
mistress simile chaste
Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress. Cassandra Clare
mistress young masters
A young mistress is better than an old master. H. G. Wells
mistress use trouble
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
mistress stories bears
I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again. Oscar Levant
mistress music-is possessive
Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress. Leonard Slatkin
mistress fool obesity
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. Paul Gauguin
mistress use ifs
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not. Horace
mistress dangerous stills
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
mistress biologist unwilling
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
mistress atheism states
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress. Heinrich Heine
mistress events madness
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. John Dryden
mistress liz fickle
Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress. Gayle Forman
mistress firsts adultery
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? Prince Charles
mistress village witch
His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation. Terry Pratchett
mistress instinct forbidden
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. Robert A. Heinlein
mistress looks problem
when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
mistress libertarian limits
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.
mistress married film
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. Oskar Werner
mistress show-business shows
I have this mistress: show business. Ray Romano
mistress lines cabinets
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
mistress waste royal
It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses. Robertson Davies