Mistress

Famous quotes containing the word mistress:

“The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

“God bless the master of this house,
Likewise the mistress too:”
—Unknown. God Bless the Master of This House (l. 1–2)