#mistress

Something must be done about the food.” Seeing his speculative glance Clare laid down her fork and gave him a warning scowl. “Yes, I’m a good cook, but I will not have time to work in the kitchen. And don’t try to convince me that a mistress also has to cook for her lover.” “I wasn’t thinking of wasting your valuable time in the kitchen.” He smiled mischievously. “But a mistress can do interesting thing with food. Shall I describe them?” “No!” “Another time, perhaps. ↗

— Mary Jo Putney

#food-love #mistress #food

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

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master. ↗

— Susanna Moodie

#enough #first #get #had #had enough

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#deny #faith #good #good faith #his

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever. ↗

— Les Paul

#bartender #beautiful #good #had #his

Yes, but knee pants are so much more flattering. You can see my legs." You want people to see your legs?" I have very nice legs!" We both paused to admire them for a moment. ↗

— Karen Chance

#dory #radu #death

Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!" -Royce Westmoreland ↗

— Judith McNaught

#loyalty #mistress #render #dreams

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#imagination #memory #mistress #servant #wife

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. ↗

— Akhenaton

#give #guide #hear #heart #heed

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. ↗

— Lord Byron

#anything #friend #friends #lovers #mistress