Perversion is a sleeping monster; art is a fanning mistress. Art serves the perversion that is deep and often dormant within human beings.
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
I think 'Mistresses' is so successful because it's a mixture of intriguing storylines with lots of twists and it is rooted very strongly in reality and it's really glossy.
That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Gil: She's right, I recently read a two-volume biography of Rodin, and Rose was the wife, Camille the mistress.
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
The untented Kosmos my abode, I pass, a wilful stranger: My mistress still the open road And the bright eyes of danger.
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.
...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...
She is a jewel far richer than a mountain of coin could bring!
They do not call him the terror of husbands and lovers for no reason...
Do you trust me to be strong enough…strong enough to love you in the way you need to be loved?
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
