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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

Earl of Sandwhich . . .You shall either die of the pox or on the gallowsJohn Wilkes . . . That sir depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.

John Wilkes

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

Cedric Hardwicke

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

James Goldsmith

MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

Felix Marti ibanez

Art is a she-devil of a mistress, and if at times in earlier days she would not even stoop to my way of thinking, I have persevered and will so continue.

Frederic Remington

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

Prince Charles

Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars/ Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Honore De Balzac

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

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.

Sheilah Graham

My great-grandmother was your great-great-grandfather's mistress, so how about it?

Camilla Parker Bowles

[The] legitimate office [of the human face] is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham