F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… ."
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Mistress
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Merlin Stone
Author, Feminist
"In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?"
Prince Charles
Royalty
"Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?"
Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction Author
"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."
Elizabeth I
Queen
"I will have here but one mistress and no master."
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"Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I’m sober and I’m lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment"
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"A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position."
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"Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress."
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"a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance."
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"Art is a jealous mistress."
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"The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect"
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"The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys."
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"I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife."
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"I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion."
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"When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere! Importune me no more!"
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"The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us."
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"The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken."
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"A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
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"Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish."
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"A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress."
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"The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux memes.]"
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"For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence."
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"Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden."
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"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."
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"Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends."
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