Mistress Quotes - Page 13

• a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Grief, Sorrow, Complaining

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Wife

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.9, New Victoria Publishers

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• Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.

  Louis Sabin

  Dog, Home, Animal

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• Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Littles, Complaining

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• It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

  Robertson Davies

  Waste, Royal, Moral

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• England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.

  Thomas Gray

  Air, Wind, Sea

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• The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
  The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
  The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
  And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
  Of aid from them-She was the Universe.

  Lord Byron

  Moon, Clouds, Air

  George Gordon Byron, “Darkness”

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• When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

  James Goldsmith

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  "Marital fidelity? What a terribly common idea" by Emma Soames, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.

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• Sunday-the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors.

  Sylvia Plath

  Country, Sunday, Doctors

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.120, Hamilton Books

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• Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

  Samuel Morse

  Rejection, Painting, Abandoned

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• Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

  William Shakespeare

  Lilies, Fields

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1831). “The Dramatic Works”, p.130

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• I've come to the conclusion that a long personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Long, Next, Impossible

  "Star-spangled Promenader" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2001.

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• You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Eye, Fighting

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• There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moon, Lunch, Movement

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• Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand and careful guidance of her Master drawing, color is a splendid Mistress, with a mate worthy of herself, her lover, but her Master likewise, the most magnificent Mistress possible, and the result is evident in all the glorious things that spring from their union.

  James Whistler

  Strong, Spring, Hands

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• Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

  Michel de Montaigne

  School, Violent

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.206, Stanford University Press

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• 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

  Deceit, Deceiving, Cunning

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• Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

  Henry Fuseli

  Art, Egypt, Rome

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• Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.

  Abraham Cowley

  Wise, Book, Angel

  Abraham Cowley, “The Wish”

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• Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Shadow, Deny

  'That Women are but Men's Shadows' (1616)

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• My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Simple, Issues, Experience

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.3, OUP Oxford

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• The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Men, Lasts, Cupid

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• There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.

  Saadi

  Eye, Doors, Differences

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.19, Innovations and Information

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• I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture "Venus in Furs

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Beautiful, Tired, Kissing

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• Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Love Is, Masters

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