Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

- Henry Adams

I've never heard of the wife looking up the mistress to become friends, but I like it.

- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

- Lord Byron

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

- John Wilkes

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

- James Goldsmith

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.

- Julian Barnes

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

- Horace

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

- Honore de Balzac

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

- Alison Weir

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

- George Etherege

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

- Deborah Sampson

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

- Cedric Hardwicke

Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'

- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni