#mistress

And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress Weatherwax. There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#tiffany-aching #death

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

I have this mistress: show business. ↗

— Ray Romano

#i #mistress #show #show business

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me. ↗

— William Lilly

#after #comfortably #dead #great #having

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

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

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

— Henry Adams

#deceitful #ever #man #mistress #most