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mistress
«A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
admitted, beau, beaux, cards, in short, laughs, looking glass, mistress, motions, observe, presence of mind, sigh, sighs, solemnly, The Shadow
«A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.»
«A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.»
«Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.»
Author: George William Curtis
| Keywords:
attend, bidden, call back, cruelly, delinquent, delinquents, handmaid, handmaids, mistress, precede, punishes, take control, The Front
«A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.»
«Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
crime, destroying, do no, dread, evacuate, evacuating, Feel the Need, harm, imaginary, imaginary being, infanticide, medicines, mistress, mistresses, Out of the Womb, womb
«Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.»
«Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
architecture, Bad art, duties, embitter, embittered, embitters, fetter, fettered, in fetters, jealous, mistress, painting, provider, providers, season
«Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Architecture,
Art
| Keywords:
architecture, Bad art, jealous, mistress, provider, providers
