Mistress Quotes - Page 8

• Hey, Volusian, you haven't been checking me out, have you?" He gave me his trademark bland stare. "I assure you, mistress, the only allure your bare flesh has for me is to remind me how easy it will be to slice open." I laughed. If not for the fact he was actually serious, he'd be so much fun.

  Richelle Mead

  Fun, Hey, Flesh

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.200, Zebra Books

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• My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of his nativity?’ Seconds passed. A beetle flew into Mistress Leap’s hair while she stared at Clent, then it struggled free and flew off again. ‘Did you lie about when he was born?’ translated Mosca.

  Frances Hardinge

  Lying, Hair, Luck

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• But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short.

  Albert Camus

  Nice, Party, Simple

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.33, Vintage

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• Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Men, Sea

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.362

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• For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Mistake, Men

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• Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

  George William Curtis

  Anger, Mind, Doe

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• Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Queens, Moon, Flames

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.

  Gwen Raverat

  Dance, Religious, Class

  Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.210, Clear Press Ltd

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• The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf of barley; the Mistress of the Animals suckles goats and gazelles. There are male Adorants certainly - up on tiptoe, their outstretched arms hoisted in a kind of heil, their bodies arched suggestively, pelvis forward, before the Goddess - but there are no masculine deities, not a single one in sight. No woman worth her salt, one might think, could fail to be intrigued.

  Alison Fell

  Animal, Thinking, Sight

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• I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

  Oscar Levant

  Stories, Bears, Adultery

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• A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Real, Suffering

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.

  Andre Breton

  Children, Wife, Shadow

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• Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Drinking, Wife, Definitions

  Reginald in Russia (1910) "A Young Turkish Catastrophe"

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• You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

  Violet Trefusis

  Love, Government, Kingdoms

  Violet Keppel Trefusis, Mitchell Alexander Leaska (1991). “Violet to Vita: the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21”, Viking Adult

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• A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Glasses, Laughing

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1997, Delphi Classics

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• In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two he's also having a fling with a fringe tootsie, both the wife and the mistress are outraged and the combination lover, husband, and cheat may well wind up with a large French bread knife between his ribs.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Husband, Humorous

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.192, Da Capo Press

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• When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dog, Thieves, Bark

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 (Part II): The Friend”, p.170, Princeton University Press

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• When I was fair and young, and favor graced me,
  Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;
  But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore,
  "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere!
  Importune me no more!

  Elizabeth I

  Rejection, Favors, Young

  Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, Mary Beth Rose (2000). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

  William Davenant

  Life, Summer, Wise

  Sir William Davenant, “To A Mistress Dying”

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• Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray, was always his mistress. He was never without an object, for when we cease to have an object, we become like an invalid in a hospital waiting for death.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Waiting, Forever

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• Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Biologist, Unwilling

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• Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.

  William H. Masters

  Eye, Heart, Acceptance

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• Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

  Robert Redford

  Success, Nice, Embrace

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• It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

  Voltaire

  Soul, Half, Lost

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• Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I’m sober and I’m lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment

  Drake

  Commitment, Want, Sober

  Song: Furthest Thing, 2013

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