Mistress Quotes

• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Freedom, Responsibility

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 6), 1966.

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• A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Husband, Mistake

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• Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

  Anton Chekhov

  Tired, Science, Night

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, 11 Sept. 1888

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• A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

  Plutarch

  Life, Soul, Body

  Plutarch (1834). “Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek; with Notes, Historical & Critical; & a Life of Plutarch”, p.222

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• A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

  Honore de Balzac

  Running, Husband, Thinking

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• A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Friendship, Agreement

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• Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

  Brenda Jackson

  Falling In Love, Smart, Men

  Brenda Jackson (2015). “Brenda Jackson The Westmoreland Series Books 1-5: Delaney's Desert Sheikh\A Little Dare\Thorn's Challenge\Stone Cold Surrender\Riding The Storm”, p.45, Harlequin

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• The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

  Eliza Farnham

  Perfect, Office, Soul

  Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.107

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• I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

  Harold Robbins

  Women, Wife, Fool

  Harold Robbins (1985). “The Inheritors”, Pocket

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• Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Wife, Bears

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.414

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• Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

  Jim Backus

  Marriage, Men, Mattresses

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• Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Kissing

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

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• The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Thinking, Sake

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• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Memories, Imagination

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• Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Dream, Men, Weakness

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 88, 1799.

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• Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Beautiful, Wine

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.50, tredition

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• One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ignorance, Past, Destiny

  Joseph Conrad (2008). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, OUP Oxford

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• Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Women, Persons

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• To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children -- a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.

  Ruth Stout

  Children, Memories, Betrayal

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• The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Disappointment, Hate

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• Unanimity is the mistress of strength.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Unanimity

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• Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Happiness, Dream

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Power, Political

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• Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Money, Important, Automobile

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• Art is a jealous mistress.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Jealous, Transcendentalism

  'The Conduct of Life' (1860) 'Wealth'

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