#mistress

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

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

— George Etherege

#good #i #i love #love #mistress

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

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#get #i #lawful #literature #medicine

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

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

— Victor Hugo

#imagination #memory #mistress #servant #wife

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#community #condition #consisting #making #master

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