“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
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
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“Even when we're not talking, I feel comfortable when I'm by your side, and I think that's wonderful.” — Saekisan Copy Share Image
I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life. — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself an action hero, at all. My domestic life is the same as anyone else's. — Chris Vance Copy Share Image
Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it. — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“When we police a woman's affect, when we privilege it or equate it with her actions, with what she actually does, we're… — Toni Jensen Copy Share Image
The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“That's just like you, man... But wait, you're keeping a bunch of old plastic bags around? Aren't you getting a little too… — Saekisan Copy Share Image
It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone… — Fran Lebowitz 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
“October's Double by Stewart Stafford Light a fire in flinty February, As the evening time comes down, Welcome all the family home… — Stewart Stafford 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
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
“I had always liked staying the night with other families, having your own room with a freshly made bed, full of unfamiliar… — Knausgaard 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
“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
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
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
