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Quotes About Domesticity

And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day.
~ Justin Cronin
Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
~ Mae West
When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.
~ Phyllis Bentley
For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.
~ Don Herold
I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.
~ Rebecca Loos
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
~ Erma Bombeck
Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
~ Milla Jovovich
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
~ Charles Darwin
When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.
~ Harold Monro
A los escritores los hace tan felices la idea de llevar a cabo alguna tarea doméstica! Les gusta compensar sus vagabundeos nebulosos con un frenético interés por lo concreto.
~ David Foenkinos
A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I'm a really big homebody. If I had my way, a typical Saturday night would be staying home, ordering in, watching a movie or catching up on some shows.
~ Christine Taylor
I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
~ Vanessa Paradis
I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.
~ Gladys Taber
I'm kind of a homebody. I like to sit at home and watch movies and eat good food.
~ Emilie de Ravin
To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
~ E. W. Howe
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
~ Agnes Repplier
Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.
~ Paul McCartney
The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
~ Tamsin Egerton
I'm a bit of a homebody. It doesn't take long for me to get to the point where I'm ready to be home again.
~ Tracy Pollan
All the home I know is a hotel. Why, I don't even have a dog... I don't know the first thing about cooking or taking care of a house.
~ Pearl White
I feel like I've been ironing all day in high heels and no brassiere. ~Tizzy Donovan, Laid Out and Candle Lit
~ Ann Everett