#mistress

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

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#any #bestow #care #cost #good

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#automobile #being #differs #equally #important

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#constant #even #faithful #mistress #threats

I have this mistress: show business. ↗

— Ray Romano

#i #mistress #show #show business

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make? ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#day #difference #does #domestic #domestic policy

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#masochism #mistress #prostitute #psychopathology #sexuality

...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

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. ↗

— Elsie de Wolfe

#find #forever #guests #happiness #home

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

— James Goldsmith

#his #job #man #marries #mistress