Mistress Quotes - Page 10

• I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

  Susanna Moodie

  Husband, Lying, Wish

  Susanna Moodie (1913). “Roughing It in the Bush, or Life in Canada”, p.193, Hayes Barton Press

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• What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

  William Osler

  Love, Fickle, Elude

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

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• In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the two Lands of Egypt, Mistress of Shelter, Mistress of Heaven, Mistress of the House of Life, Mistress of the word of God. She was the Unique. In all Her great and wonderful works She was a wiser magician and more excellent than any other God.

  Merlin Stone

  Unique, Egypt, Isis

  Merlin Stone (2012). “When God Was A Woman”, p.12, Doubleday

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• Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

  Germaine Greer

  Self, Likeable, Understatement

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• My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!

  Tamora Pierce

  Knights, Knives, Tongue

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.333, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Horse, Moving, Eye

  "Scenes from a provincial life" by AS Byatt, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2002.

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• The appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with [man], that she has the uncompromising independence of a tiger or a leopard while she is hunting in his stables and barns: that she still remains mysterious and remote when she is rubbing herself gently against the legs of her mistress or purring contentedly in front of the fire.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Lying, Cat, Hunting

  Konrad Lorenz (2003). “Man Meets Dog”, p.9, Routledge

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• I did a film called The Jesuit, which was an independent film. I did that shortly after Mistresses. I was still feeling soft and I was nursing, but it was a character I'd never played before. That was a Paul Schrader script, with an up-and-coming Mexican director, named Alfonso Ulloa. That has Tim Roth and Paz Vega in it, and I enjoyed that, as well.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Character, Independent, Nursing

  Source: collider.com

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• David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was serving as CIA director when he stepped down suddenly following revelations that he`d had an extramarital affair. That same investigation that turned up evidence of the affair also eventually turned up evidence that General.
  Petraeus had passed classified information to his mistress.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Iraq, Effort

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• Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth.

  William Harvey

  Wise, Sight, Giving

  William Harvey, Edward Jenner (2010). “Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology”, p.66, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Yield, Favors, Fortune

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• A young mistress is better than an old master.

  H. G. Wells

  Masters, Young

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.8143, Delphi Classics

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• I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? he was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach; presumptuous in him, and dangerous to the masters.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Children, Lying, Father

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2015). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: An Autobiographical Account of an Escaped Slave and Abolitionist”, p.18, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to all men, at all times, and in all places. She is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly. Creation has not displaced her, but is her visible framework and foil. All sounds are her servants, and purveyors, proclaiming not only that their mistress is, but is a rare mistress, and earnestly to be sought after.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Men, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau (1977). “The portable Thoreau”, Penguin

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• Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Team, Men, Wife

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• The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves.
  [Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux memes.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Talking, Together

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• It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Faithful, Fidelity

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• Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Wine, Vain, Capricious

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• Fame is a jealous mistress
  And will brook no rival.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Jealous, Rivals, Fame

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• One last word of farewell, dear master and mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also happiness in your hearts at the remembrance of my long happy life with you: "Here lies one who loves us and whom we loved." No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dog, Regret, Lying

  Eugene O'Neill, Travis Bogard (1988). “The Unknown O'Neill: Unpublished Or Unfamiliar Writings of Eugene O'Neill”, p.434, Yale University Press

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• Be a mistress to none, but all good to some.

  Nelly

  Expression

  Song: Jang a Lang

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• The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds... empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.

  Edith Stein

  Flames, Order, Wind

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.86, ICS Publications

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• Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.

  Eliphas Levi

  Hate, Heart, Animal

  Eliphas Levi (2011). “The Dogma of High Magic”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• Out of all of the stuff I have done in my whole 12 years, the Mistress series I and II are the most enjoyable processes I've ever been through and definitely, I'm most proud of that music.

  Jay Sean

  Years, Done, Proud

  "Jay Sean – A BollySpice EXCLUSIVE!". Interview with Aashi Gahlot, bollyspice.com. November 21, 2014.

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• One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.

  Marcel Proust

  Eye, Editors, Listening

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained”, p.43, Marcel Proust

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