Mistresses Quotes

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Marcel Proust
“A woman whom we love seldom satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman we do not love.”
Marcel Proust, Time Regained

Marcel Proust
“Homosexuals would be the best husbands in the world if they did not put on an act of loving other women.”
Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

Sabrina Jeffries
“I don't want her to know the truth about us."
"I'm merely going to explain to explain that I'm not Nathaniel's mistress."
"You can't talk about mistresses to a well-bred Englishwoman. It violates every propriety."
"To speak in a forthright manner violates propriety?" She rose to stare at him with thinly veiled amusements. "No wonder you English lost the colonies. What with all the lying and the 'propriety' and the evasions, how do you ever get anything done?"
As she crossed the box to sit down beside Evelina, he stared after her in fascinated amazement. Americans were mad—that’s all there was to it.”
Sabrina Jeffries, Married to the Viscount

Rebecca Rowland
“It wasn’t a perfume that she smelled, either. No, it was the odor of something larger: the scent of secrecy, of newness, and of rediscovered youth.”
Rebecca Rowland, White Trash and Recycled Nightmares

“I find it quite entertaining that girlfriends and wives of some of my friends and the mistresses of my ex-husband feel the need to keep up with my social media. I didn't realize my life was so interesting since I am a simple person...I guess that's what happens when you have trust issues, bitterness, and/or nothing better to do.”
April Mae Monterrosa

Emmanuelle de Maupassant
“One evening, on being quite occupied by the state of the struffoli, I seated the Duca di San Orvieta with the Duchessa opposite, and between two of his mistresses. They fought over his attentions, above the table and below, like squid intent on extracting a mollusc from its shell. The poor man was so distracted that he hardly ate a bite. The Duchessa’s words to me afterwards were not lacking in picturesque vividness.”
Emmanuelle de Maupassant, The Gentlemen's Club

Milan Kundera
“This absurd jealousy, grounded as it was in mere hypotheses, proved that he considered her fidelity an unconditional postulate of their relationship. How then could he begrudge her her jealousy of his very real mistresses?”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being