Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice. ... we… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
“Some men,” she would add in ominous seriousness, “are nice as pie in public but within their own homes they are mean… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life; and numerous mechanical devices threaten to make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
“Rosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping consisted simply in ordering the best of everything––nothing else… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Setting the table. Lighting the candles. Building the fire.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The domestic matters. It is the base unit upon which all else is built. The history of the domestic is the history… — Ruth Goodman Copy Share Image
“I have been seeing dragons again. Last night, hunched on a beaver dam, one held a body like a badly held cocktail;… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
“His wife, Genevieve, had her bare feet up on the sofa, exhausted by the responsibility of coordinating the domestic crisis of Christmas… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“Why should such an angel be plunged so low as into the vulgar offices of domestic life? Were she mine, I should… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“But I love Sir long time, she'd said repeatedly, blubbering, but I love Sir long time. The wife got up and slapped… — Amanda Lee Koe Copy Share Image
“Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another." "It's a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
