A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.
I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.
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.
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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.
That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
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.
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my mistress's back was turned to me while she was fighting with her husband, so I just put my fingers in the sugar bowl to take one lump, and maybe she heard me, for she turned and saw me. The next minute, she had the rawhide down.
