Quotes about Mistress
And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
— Genesis 16:4
an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.
— Proverbs 30:23
“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
— Genesis 16:8
Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis.
— Dorothy Sayers
So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
— Genesis 16:9
As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.
— Psalm 123:2
Claudia was either unaware of her expression, or didn't care that he knew of her interest in his nakedness. Once he had hoped to find a mistress who would look at him with such undisguised longing. He had never dared hope to find lust in a wife. The perfect woman sat before him, and she was his. Life was very good indeed. He propped his hands behind his head. "I am at your mercy, my lady. Do with me as you will." "You wish to be ravished, Baron?" "'Tis my fondest desire.
— Elisabeth Elliot
because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
— Nahum 3:4
Ms. Babylon has thus come to see herself as God: "I shall always be here, mistress forever... I and I alone am still here" (Is 47:7, 8). No superpower can ever imagine it will cease to be in power, but this means its pretension is quasi-divine and must be corrected.
— John Goldingay
She does not know what she says. Will you ruin her, because she has not wit to help herself? Get up! You could be free instantly. That is the most diabolical deed that ever you did. We are all done for—master, mistress, and servant.
— Emily Bronte
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
— William Osler
Marcel, I know I'm an old woman and as you say a bit of an actress. But please go on pretending. As long as we pretend we escape. Pretend that I love you like a mistress. Pretend that you love me like a lover. Pretend that I would die for you and that you would die for me.' I read the message again now; I thought it movingly phrased . . . And he had died for her, so perhaps he was no comédien after all. Death is a proof of sincerity.
— Graham Greene