Mistress Quotes

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

I know that many will call this useless work. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy-on experience, the mistress of their Masters.

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

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.