Quotes of: Mistresses Keyword

Desperation is the mistress of the impossible.

Spanish

The mistress is queen, the wife is the slave.

Portuguese

Each day has a color, a smell.

The Mistress of Spices

There are heartaches in life, painful things that happen and disappointments that steal away dreams.

The Mistress of Trevelyan

He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.

English

Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.

The Mistress of Spices

They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words. And [experience] has been the mistress of those wh...

Leonardo da Vinci

Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

The Mistress of Spices

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

The Mistress of Spices

Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.

The Mistress of Spices

The eye of the master makes the horse fat, and the eye of the mistress makes the chambers neat.

Dutch

She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue.

The Mistress of Spices

Mistress Epps: Sometimes, you have to beat it from them. [she scratches Patsey's face; Patsey screams] Mistress Epps: BEAT IT FROM THEM!

12 Years a Slave

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor

Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

The Mistress of Spices

The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like General David Petraeus because he had a mistress. In France, if a powerful man doesn't have a mistress, he's...

Bill O'Reilly

Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress. Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man if he cannot make his wife his mistress. Seeking variety is a sign of impotence.

Cousin Bette

We don't really want to get what we think that we want. I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear - I'm not a murderer but let us say- that it will...

Slavoj Zizek

Sandy’s was one of those places that made poor, white trash feel like high-class consumers. This was the kind of place you’d take your mistress to, but never your wife. Wives expected better. Mistresses were impressed by the blandness of the over...

Beautiful Monster

As plain Jane, she had far more to risk than Lady Mystère did. Behind her mask she could be the mistress of his darkest desires, but without it there were consequences to her deception. It was the outcome of her deceit that frightened her. Tobias mi...

His Mistress

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I ...

Shakespeare's Sonnets