Mistress Quotes - Page 12

• It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

  Philippa Gregory

  Boys, Matter, You Choose

  Philippa Gregory, Kristin Hannah, Janice Graham (2004). “Of love and life”

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• But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Player, Thinking, Games

  "Joyful Christian".

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• Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!" -Royce Westmoreland

  Judith McNaught

  Loyalty, Giving, Wife

  Judith McNaught (1991). “A Kingdom of Dreams”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

  Cassandra Clare

  Simile, Chaste, Informants

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.

  Edith Wharton

  Expensive

  "Old New York".

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• The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mom, Son, Married

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.15, Random House

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• Mistress, I have never asked anything of you in my servitude. But now, I beg you this: do not make me keep passing these adolescent sentiments back and forth all night.

  Richelle Mead

  Night, Passing, Back And Forth

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1397, Zebra Books

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• He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad.

  James Dashner

  Two, Clue, Stranger

  James Dashner (2009). “The Journal of Curious Letters”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

  Anton Chekhov

  Friendship, Sex, Bad Friend

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 2

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• By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Innocence, Youth

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.4335, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Men, Space, Wife

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1960). “Laughter in the Dark”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• Well...what did you promise exactly? Not to tell anyone that Eric Dragomir had a mistress and baby?" Sonya nodded. "And not to tell who they were?" Sonya nodded again. Sydney gave Sonya the warmest, friendliest smile i'd ever seen on the Alchemist. "Did you promise not to tell anyone where they are?" Sonya nodded, and Sydney's smile faltered a little. Then her eyes lit up. "Did you promise not to LEAD anyone to where they are?

  Richelle Mead

  Baby, Eye, Alchemist

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1291, Penguin

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• Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run inot, Thou has not loved. Of if thou has't not sat as I do now, Wearying they hearer in thy mistress's praise, Thou has not loved. Of if thou hast not broke from company Abruptly, as my passion now makes me, Thou has not loved. (Silvius)

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Passion, Praise

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• (Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.

  Richelle Mead

  Attitude, Struggle, Ambition

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.444, Zebra Books

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• I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly taking down the framed examples of fine embroideries, samplers, and needlework from teh hallway wall and tucking them under her arm. "Mistress! Come on! You've got to leave!" She calmly turns and faces me. "Why?" she asks. "The British are coming?" "Only one, Mistress," I say

  L.A. Meyer

  Wall, Smell, Example

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• Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Mary, Contrary

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “The Secret Garden”, p.11, BookRix

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• We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time

  Alexandre Dumas

  Humble, Air, Sea

  Alexandre Dumas (1981). “The Count of Monte Cristo”

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• Very well, Lord Maccon. If we are going to play this particular hand, would you be interested in becoming my...” “Mistress?

  Gail Carriger

  Hands, Play, Becoming

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• Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the humiliation of a succubus who moonlights as a Christmas elf?" "You always said I should quit the bookstore and find something else to do," I reminded him. "Yes, but that was because I thought you'd go on to do something respectable. Like become a stripper or the Mayor's mistress.

  Richelle Mead

  Suffering, Bookstores, Goes On

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.9, Kensington Books

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• Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to spill, I’d rather spill it than let it lie. If my mistress grows absent-minded and leaves a ball of yarn about, I’ll bat it between my paws, and unravel it. Because it’s fun. Because it’s what cats do best.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Fun, Lying, Cat

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.110, Feiwel & Friends

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• Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.

  Gayle Forman

  Fickle, Liz, Muse

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.66, Penguin

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• Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!

  Benjamin Constant

  Believe, Men, Forever

  Benjamin Constant (2006). “Adolphe”, p.64, Penguin UK

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• Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So, through all history, to the end, as long as men believe in God that army must still march and fall, recruited only from the flower of mankind, cheered only by their own hope of humanity, strong only in the confidence of their cause.

  George William Curtis

  Country, Strong, Believe

  George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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

  Propertius

  Faith, Enemy, May

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• Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

  John Sterling

  Wind, Made, Commerce

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