#mistress

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress. ↗

— Oskar Werner

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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. ↗

— Henry Adams

#deceitful #ever #man #mistress #most

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

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#age #companions #men #middle #middle age

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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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

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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

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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

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Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one. ↗

— George Etherege

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