Domesticity Quote by Brian McGreevy

“Like a night when the energy is bloody unsalvageable but the show must et cetera. Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a…

— Brian McGreevy

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.

— Boris Johnson

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well…

— Samuel Johnson

“Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon tea. The [...] chink of cups and the…

— Anonymous

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fatigue, in the Army, is the very necessary cleaning…

— James Jones

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

— R. Heber Newton

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

— Adam Gopnik

There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own.…

— Alice Munro

If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put…

— Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay…

— Ada Leverson

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily…

— Paul McCartney

I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which…

— Nick Hornby

I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it. The people…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio