The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this? — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“I was lounging in the kitchen, enjoying the small fermata between emptying the dishwasher and reloading it. It's a glamorous life.” — Abbi Waxman 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
Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life. — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
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 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
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates… — Ada Leverson 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
“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
“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
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 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
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
“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
“She liked to be in the thick of things and did not delegate easily, except where domestic chores were concerned.” — Mary Allsebrook 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
