Quotes About Homeliness

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.

Hale sat with his feet up on the stove, his back propped against a battered desk strewn with papers: the place, like the man, was warm, genial and untidy.

There's something rather comforting about putting on an apron.

The great thing about coming to Melbourne is that people talk about Sydney being the food capital but Melbourne is a lot more; it has that residential feel, a feeling of homeliness. When you go to restaurants, it's known as a creative, artistic city. That's what you get with the food.

I like to personalise my dressing room, have a cover for the bed and, if it is a long run, a few cushions and a teapot - a little pot for one.

The people who hire all these things done for them never know what they lose, for the homeliest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them, and Meg found so many proofs of this that everything in her small neatness from the kitchen roller to the silver vase on her parlor table was eloquent of home love and tender forethought.

for the homeliest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them

Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

I used to buy things for every hotel room or every place I lived in to make it feel like home.

Gloves dried by the fire feel warmer, bread risen by the fire tastes better, tea made from water heated in a kettle over the fire makes you cozier.

All true greatness runs as level a course, and is as unaspiring, as the plow in the furrow. It wears the homeliest dress and speaks the homeliest language

A place isn't really yours until you clean it.

Supper is stew and dumplings and apple brown betty for dessert, and, oh, how wonderful the simple meal tastes.

So vertraulich, so heimlich hab' ich nicht leicht ein Plätzchen gefunden, und dahin lass' ich mein Tischchen aus dem Wirtshause bringen und meinen Stuhl, trinke meinen Kaffee da und lesen meinen Homer.

I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

I bring incense, essential oils, and candles to make my hotel room feel more like home.

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

Mom had five sisters, one more homelier than the next, with Mom arguably the homeliest of the swarm.

Setback is like Grandma's muffins.

Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

His curse was his homeliness; his editor at The World , Irwin Cobb, once caught sight of a mounted moose head and cried, "My God, they've shot Frank Adams!

Not an elegant tapestry but a serviceable quilt.