Quotes About Domestic

She took a mixing bowl from the cupboard, and a cloth bag from a shelf, measured out a handful

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal; they had been starved of the knowledge that most attracts the young mind: that the crown of life is the exercise of choice

The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.

She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil had a domestic side, and its very banality protected it from exposure.

She's been at his apartment in Brooklyn, complaining about his couch being covered in cat hair. Bryan had taken her face in his hands and said, " You know what your problem is, Smita? You focus on the cat hair. Try focusing on the cat. Perhaps that's what love was--an embrace of the commonplace? Perhaps that's where wisdom lay--in recognizing the grandeur of everyday domestic life?

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

It makes me sound like a domestic freak, but I care very much about my kids' nutrition.

I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

I took an oath of office to protect Arizona from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession.

Elbridge Gerry, arguing against a large standing army, lasciviously compared it to a standing penis: "An excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

On the other hand, he stressed in scores of letters and statements that Americans should not let the fear of communism cause them to surrender the civil liberties and freedom of thought that they cherished. There were a lot of domestic communists in England, but the people there did not get themselves whipped into a frenzy by internal security investigations, he pointed out. Americans need not either.

Now I was surprised and light-headed, like a domestic fowl that finds itself able to fly over a low fence in a moment of terror.

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.

Besides, I reflected darkly, you shouldn't have to be a lawyer to figure out how to do the laundry.

Home life is important and housekeeping should be an enjoyable part of it .

A "London Mechanic's Wife" made a point that historians should take to heart: Shall the idiot-like, the stupid and usurious capitalists, tell us to look to our domestic affairs, and say, "these we understand best," we will retort on them, and tell them that thousands of us have scarce any domestic affairs to look after, when the want of employment on the one hand, or ill-requited toil on the other, have left our habitations almost destitute...

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.

Filth implied social and domestic disorder; and, when discovered in the home, inculcated immoral habits – for it was widely agreed that working men, faced with poor housekeeping, sought refuge in the glittering comforts of the gin palace.

I refuse to argue with you, Charles! You're my partner! Your job is to iron my shirts and cook my omelettes, not boss me around!

To give my characters a real, or at least a convincing, life demanded more space. Did giving them a domestic dimension mean pressing the pause button in order to relate the dull routines of mortgages, electric bills, children's ailments and traffic jams? No, that is not the way to treat your readers unless you just don't care about them; and in that case you should be writing literary novels.