“ Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
- 1.6K
“ If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity. ”
- George Sand- Copy
- 274
“ It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance. ”
- Henri De Regnier- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. ”
- H.H. Munro- Copy
- 2.9K
“ If there were no husbands, who would look after our mistresses? ”
- George Moore- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.4K
“ In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
- 1K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. ”
- William Wycherley- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs. ”
- Charlotte Saunders Cushman- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 176
“ 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. ”
- Paul Gauguin- Copy
- 3K
“ It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 36
“ It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. ”
- Elsie De Wolfe- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Lovers do not wish to see the faults of their mistresses until their enchantment is at an end. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. ”
- Anton Chekhov- Copy
- 3.7K
“ 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 them. ”
- William Wycherley- Copy
- 336
“ Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
- 938
“ Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 3.1K
“ My works are the issue of pure and simple experience, which is the one true mistress. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
- 911
“ No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
- 2.5K
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