#mistress

You went up a girl and came down a woman. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#mistress-coyle #monsters-of-men #patrick-ness #viola #men

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#heard #indeed #minded #mistresses #often

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. ↗

— Horace

#how #mistress #money #thou #use

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#anyone #away #conquest #hard #her

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

— Prince Charles

#expect #first #history #me #mistress

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aside #breeding #coarse #contempt #days

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

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#kept #many #men #mistress #things