“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.”

— Arthur Golden , book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

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American novelist 1956

James Goldsmith (1933–1997) Anglo-French billionaire financier and tycoon

Evening Standard, "Quote of the Day", Mon 13 January 2014, p. 16

“When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy.”

Sacha Guitry (1885–1957) French dramatist and playwright

Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998), page 83

“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“[He was] delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the Queen of Hierocles.”

Elagabalus (203–222) Roman Emperor

Harry Benjamin in The Transsexual Phenomenon http://www.symposion.com/ijt/benjamin/ (1966)

“It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.”

Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

Cultural and Religious Heritage of India: Islam http://books.google.co.in/books?id=e2yvoujPJCYC&pg=PA109, p. 109

“When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.”

Stendhal book The Red and the Black

Quitte-t-on sa maîtresse, on risque, hélas! d'être trompé deux ou trois fois par jour.
Vol. I, ch. XII
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)

“How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see?”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Blowin' in the Wind

“Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable….”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

Quoted in the "Apophthegms, Sentiments, Opinions and Occasional Reflections" of Sir John Hawkins (1787-1789) in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 11, edited by George Birkbeck Hill

“The same reign of terror that occurred under Robespierre and Hitler occurred back then in the fifties, as it occurs now. You must realize that there is very little actual courage in this world. It's pretty easy to bend people around. It doesn't take much to shut people up, it really doesn't. In the fifties all I had to do was call a guy up on the telephone and say, "Well, I think your wife would like to know about your mistress."”

Ronald DeWolf (1934–1991) American critic of Scientology

Interview in Penthouse (June 1983)

“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.”

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