Mistress Quotes - Page 17

• I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.

  Harriette Wilson

  Age, Fifteen

  Memoirs (1825)

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• It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

  Henri de Regnier

  Love, Writing, Letters

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• Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Art, Self, Triumph

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• Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Beautiful, Cutting, Men

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• After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

  William Lilly

  Affection, Masters

  William Lilly (1822). “William Lilly's History of His Life and Times from the Year 1602 to 1681”, p.44

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• Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Jealous, Men, Soul

  "Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom".

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• Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!

  William Davenant

  Stars, Eye, Light

  William Davenant, “Morning Song”

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• It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Affection, Easy, Left

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• Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

  Alexander Pope

  Husband, Barren, Brides

  Epistles to Several Persons "To a Lady" l. 71 (1735)

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• And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Loss, Sound, Delight

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 130.

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• No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress' name. Little, alas, they know or heed How far these beauties hers exceed! Fair trees! where s'e'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found.

  Andrew Marvell

  Cutting, White, Flames

  Andrew Marvell (1997). “"To His Coy Mistress" and Other Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Art, Fetch, Masters

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• Want is the mistress of invention

  Susanna Centlivre

  Want, Invention

  Susanna Centlivre (1746). “The Busie Body. A comedy ... The fifth edition”, p.9

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• Mistress of the grisly and the glutinous

  Graham Masterton

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• Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails, for they have waited for their masters and mistresses for many years. You see mothers who have missed their sons. Fathers who had never spoken of love to their children, ready to embrace them as they voyage from the end of life. It shows the lies of this world, you see. We are wrong about so many things here. Mankind has done terrible things, yet we are forgiven.

  Douglas Clegg

  Mother, Dog, Children

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• When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

  Arthur Golden

  Divorce, Men, Wife

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• The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Silly, Imagination, Comedy

  Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.146, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• 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

  Funny, Fool, Obesity

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.2, Routledge

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• The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

  Terry Pratchett

  School, Years, Tests

  "The Wee Free Men". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2003.

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• Chess is a beautiful mistress.

  Bent Larsen

  Beautiful, Chess

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• Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Order, Discipline

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• I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

  Jane Austen

  Calm

  Jane Austen (1833). “Sense and Sensibility: A Novel”, p.310

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• Look upon me, Mistress. Watch as I wither!

  J.R. Ward

  Watches, Looks

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1348, Penguin

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• And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress Weatherwax. There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, People, Life And Death

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• Take the back door," she said. "Claire, you and your strang friend-" "Eve," they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her fst for a bump. "Or, you could call me Eve the Great, Mistress of All She Surveys. Eve for short.

  Rachel Caine

  Doors, Bumps, Claire

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