#mistress

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#beholds #dreams #her #his #inferred

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. ↗

— Jose Marti

#go #i #ideas #mistresses #others

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? ↗

— William Osler

#eludes #ever #fickle #grasp #his

I have this mistress: show business. ↗

— Ray Romano

#i #mistress #show #show business

Lepida, has anyone ever told you that you're a cruel spiteful selfish slut?...You're vicious. You're unprincipled. You mistreat your slaves and abuse your daughter. And furthermore you're the worst, most neglectful, most criminal wife in Rome. I think we can go now. ↗

— Kate Quinn

#comeback #funny #insult #kate-quinn #mistress-of-rome

...a bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground... ↗

— John Geddes

#mistress #poet #love

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

— James Goldsmith

#his #job #man #marries #mistress

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

— Honore de Balzac

#first #himself #his #husband #lover

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. ↗

— Freda Adler

#been #law #man #master #mistress

Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future. Fate can come to rule your life if you don't decide for yourselves exactly what you want. It fills in the bits like a mischievous mistress. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#control #decide #fate #future #life