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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.
I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Inclusiveness is expanded by grievance. If I were a mistress, I would not need to fight for my career.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.
I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.
When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to choose.
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.
Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistress of somebody.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.
Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'
For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?
It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.
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.
Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.
Very well, Lord Maccon. If we are going to play this particular hand, would you be interested in becoming my...” “Mistress?
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.
I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.