“Madam, I may not call you; mistress I am ashamed to call you; and so I know not what to call you; but howsoever, I thank you.”
Elizabeth I
“Seems, madam!Nay, it is; I know not "seems".”
William Shakespeare
“Pyramid of piffle [no, not his views on Liverpool but a report Petronella Wyatt was his mistress]”
Boris Johnson
“Madame Jean is not a sovereigntist,”
Jean Lapierre
“A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.”
Honore de Balzac
“Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.”
Ernest Hemingway
“What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?”
William Osler
