Synonyms for mistresses
mis·tress·es

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1. List of paraphrases for "mistresses":

   lovers

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1. Stendhal:

   Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

2. H.H. Munro (Saki):

   Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

3. George Moore:

   If there were no husbands, who would look after our mistresses?

4. William Wycherley:

   Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

5. Francis Bacon:

   Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.