What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
“The same rumour continued: Patroni made love the same way he did everything else – with a long, thin cigar stuck jauntily… — Arthur Hailey 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
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I don’t mind admitting that I had no control in my house at mealtimes. I’d like to say it was because I… — Elizabeth McGivern 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
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
“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
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
“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
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 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
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
“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 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
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
“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 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
“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
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. — Oscar Wilde 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
“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
