Mistress Quotes

• Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

  Anton Chekhov

  Tired, Science, Night

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, 11 Sept. 1888

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• Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

  Brenda Jackson

  Falling In Love, Smart, Men

  Brenda Jackson (2015). “Brenda Jackson The Westmoreland Series Books 1-5: Delaney's Desert Sheikh\A Little Dare\Thorn's Challenge\Stone Cold Surrender\Riding The Storm”, p.45, Harlequin

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• A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

  Plutarch

  Life, Soul, Body

  Plutarch (1834). “Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek; with Notes, Historical & Critical; & a Life of Plutarch”, p.222

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• A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

  Honore de Balzac

  Running, Husband, Thinking

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Freedom, Responsibility

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 6), 1966.

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• The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

  Eliza Farnham

  Perfect, Office, Soul

  Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.107

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• A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Friendship, Agreement

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• Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

  Jim Backus

  Marriage, Men, Mattresses

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• Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Women, Persons

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• Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Wife, Bears

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.414

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• The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Thinking, Sake

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• Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Hype, Simplicity

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.432, Booklassic

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• Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Money, Important, Automobile

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• Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Dream, Men, Weakness

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 88, 1799.

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• Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Beautiful, Wine

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.50, tredition

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• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Memories, Imagination

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• It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Happiness, Home, Men

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• My teachers always said, "You're very talented, but don't set your heart on art. You're only a girl." I was inspired by Virginia Woolf in 1960, but they wouldn't let me write about her. They said she was a trivializer. I also wanted to do a paper on Simone de Beauvoir, and my philosophy teacher said, "Why would you write about the mistress? Write about the master." That was Sartre.

  Carolee Schneemann

  Girl, Teacher, Art

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Disappointment, Hate

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• Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Power, Political

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• Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Kissing

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Freedom, Being Free, Breaking Rules

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Vacancy, Position

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• Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

  Alain Ducasse

  Food, Two, Might

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• No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

  Marquis de Sade

  Love, Faith, Infidelity

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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