Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that… — Helen Kieran Reilly Copy Share Image
Domesticity has been a challenge for me but painful as it's been, engaging with family has been a school for reducing solipsism… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“she was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeing… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well. — Jenny Slate Copy Share Image
Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable… — Donna Tartt 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
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Domesticity is a fact of how social structure works. So if you say, "Well being domestic as a female is a negative… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
