Mistress Quotes - Page 3

• I will have here but one mistress and no master.

  Elizabeth I

  Masters

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Queen Bess".

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• ...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Strong, Jobs, Men

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye.

  Leigh Hunt

  Beautiful, Song, Eye

  Leigh Hunt (1873). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.216

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• We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

  William Hazlitt

  Self, Excellence, Circumstances

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Teacher, Husband, Party

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• He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

  Pierre Salinger

  Running, Differences, President

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• Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

  William Wycherley

  Book, Insomnia, Ems

  1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.

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• I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" . . . but I will say that it is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favors, but by lavish homage.

  Joseph Story

  Jealous, Law, Long

  Joseph Story (1835). “The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of Joseph Story, Now First Collected”, p.456

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• Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

  George Etherege

  Understanding, Next, Quarrels

  1676 The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 1, sc.1.

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• DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Children, Years, Firsts

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1862). “The Deeper Wrong, Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.44

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• When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Years, Twelve, Literature

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.15

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• England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

  Cedric Hardwicke

  America, Wife, England

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• As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

  Julian Barnes

  Wife, Paper, Pages

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• In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Two, Covering

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.244, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In the dark, all cats are grey.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cat, Dark, Grey

  Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.204, Penguin

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• A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

  Germaine Greer

  Marriage, Clever, Husband

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• For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Grandmother, Years, Childhood

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.83

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• Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Heart, Law, People

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughter, Mirth, Twelfth Night Important

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

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• But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

  Andrew Marvell

  Witty, Time, Humorous

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 21 (1681)

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• Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Heart, People, Yearning

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Libertarian, Limits, Taxes

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• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Sun

  Sonnet 130

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• when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Looks, Problem

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.329, Hachette UK

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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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