I don’t mind admitting that I had no control in my house…

“I was lounging in the kitchen, enjoying the small fermata between emptying the dishwasher and reloading it. It's a glamorous life.”

— Abbi Waxman

The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius…

— Edward Gibbon

“She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic life, but…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life; and numerous mechanical devices threaten to make good the…

— Anonymous

Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

— Hans Christian Andersen

I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have…

— Jim Broadbent

When I think about the reference to baroque, I'm most interested in how art was integrated into domestic life. That's why I like fresco,…

— Camille Henrot

Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Some men,” she would add in ominous seriousness, “are nice as pie in public but within their own homes they are mean and miserly…

— Alistair MacLeod

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

— Ada Leverson

I'm interested in direct communication about domestic life.

— David Berman

On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either…

— David Hume

Almost every one of the great religions of the world has made special provisions for them, and the woman who has preferred a celibate…

— Mary Livermore

If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing…

— Julia McNair Wright

“She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as…

— Michael Cunningham