#mistress

They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#development #down #even #give #hotel

...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

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

— James Goldsmith

#his #job #man #marries #mistress

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. ↗

— Oskar Werner

#films #i #married #mistress #theater

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

— Oskar Werner

#films #i #i am #married #mistress

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics. ↗

— John Wilkes

#embrace #i #mistress #politics #sir

I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain. ↗

— Catherine Breillat

#the-last-mistress #romantic

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

#been #law #man #master #mistress

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. ↗

— Eliza Farnham

#development #experience #face #human #human face