Top 50 Mistress Quotes

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

Success is a very tough mistress. For years, while you’re struggling, she wants nothing to do with you. Then one day, you find yourself in the room with her, and even though the key is on the inside, you can’t leave.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

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

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

I would be heartbroken if I found out my husband had a mistress.

The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.

I don’t think there is just one Louis Vuitton woman. That is why, for the fall/winter 2011 show, I loved the idea of lots of different characters – a wife, a mistress, a girlfriend – stepping out of the row of hotel elevators.

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

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

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.

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

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.

I wrote ‘Mistress of Spices’ at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.

I could never be with a married man. I just can’t. I could never imagine myself being the mistress of somebody.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she’s a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

Inclusiveness is expanded by grievance. If I were a mistress, I would not need to fight for my career.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that’s part of the game.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist – whatever.

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.

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.

Professional wrestling is a beautiful yet cruel mistress. She will treat you well and treat you horribly, but outside of my family, it is my one true love.

I’ve never heard of the wife looking up the mistress to become friends, but I like it.

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

I’ve come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

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

Your wife doesn’t want to hear a word about how hot your mistress is, and vice versa.

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.

I have this mistress: show business.

For centuries, divorce in the West was a male tool of control – a legislative chastity belt designed to ensure that a wife had one master, while a husband could enjoy many mistresses. It is as though, having denied women their cake for so long, the makers have no wish to see them enjoy it.

As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

I’m wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That’s what they do in normal places, but Hollywood’s not normal.

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

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would’ve loved to have been one of Louis XIV’s mistresses. They were so fantastic and aristocratic, and they had so much power. And he was such a renaissance man. I think I would’ve fit into that nicely.

They can’t take your house and give it to the mayor’s mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on.

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

I’m married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

As in all TV shows, and especially a show called ‘Mistresses,’ all is not going to be as it seems.

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

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.

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

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