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Tag Name "Mistress" (221)

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Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
Jim Backus
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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.
William Wycherley
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
Alexander Pushkin
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Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
William Osler
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Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen.
William Shakespeare
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As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Seth MacFarlane
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And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.
William Shakespeare
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(The tree bend over. Suddenly, a hiss and a meow sounded an instant before two cats darted off across the backyard.) Look, Lanie, it’s Mr. Tomcat come to save me from my celibacy. Oh, help me, Moon Mistress. Whatever am I to do with the attentions of such an unwanted suitor! Help me quick, before he kills me with my allergies. (Grace)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.
William Shakespeare
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
Stendhal
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Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
William Shakespeare
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Want is the mistress of invention
Susanna Centlivre
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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
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Sunday-the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors.
Sylvia Plath
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Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
William Wycherley
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Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.
Tori Amos
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No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
Winston Churchill
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Science is like a love affair with nature an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.
Vincent Bugliosi
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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
Violet Trefusis
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We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted – and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.
Walter Wangerin
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