Mistress Quotes - Page 9

• Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we let ourselves feel pain, that we accept how small we are and how little control we have over our lives. And she demands that we make her our top priority. But she is more beautiful, and more powerful, and more surprising, and more fascinating, and more endlessly rewarding, than anything we could ever make up about her.

  Greta Christina

  Beautiful, Giving Up, Honesty

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• The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Adventure, Wife, Faithful

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• When I sign on to a television show, I have to love that show and character so much, but this [Mistresses] was in and out, for seven episodes. And it was nice to be able to make some money again because I hadn't work in a year and a half. There were a lot of pluses.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Nice, Character, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• My local paper, The New York Times, Yahoo News, CBS, and The Washington Post, all agreed to stop using the word 'mistress.' The big one was the Associated Press. They made a style change, and it's the gold standard that sets the guide for news outlets around the world. That's a small step for the American language, a medium step for feminism, and a huge step for me personally.

  Paula Broadwell

  New York, Style, Feminism

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Wife, Literature, Splendid

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• Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

  William Faulkner

  Sacrifice, Curiosity, Slave

  William Faulkner (2011). “Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion”, p.969, Modern Library

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• Anne Marie Smith flew to Washington to tell prosecutors about Gary Condit's attempt to get her to deny their affair. It looks bad. If it's found he lied about the intern and the mistresses, he could get 4-8 years in the White House.

  Argus Hamilton

  Years, White, House

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• I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of ’sex slave’ and ’prostitute’ so much. I was a mistress!

  Kola Boof

  Sex, Definitions, Slave

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.

  Darren Shan

  Wall, Powerful, Moon

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• The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.

  Heloise

  Ties, Names, Wife

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• My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Facts, Masters, Evidence

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Writing, Remembered

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• The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Song, Morning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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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• I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Girl, Mother, School

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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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• Medicine is a jealous mistress. It demands all your time.

  Mehmet Oz

  Jealous, Medicine, Demand

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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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• I just figured, for the most part, mainstream networks stopped using [mistress word]. Those are small brush fires. The election made me realize we've got forest fires that we collectively need to be focused on.

  Paula Broadwell

  Fire, Needs, Forests

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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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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• 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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• The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds... empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.

  Edith Stein

  Flames, Order, Wind

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.86, ICS Publications

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• Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Men, Lovers, Silent

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