Domestic Life Quotes

19 Domestic Life quotes by 19 unique authors

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood.… — John le Carre
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. — Oscar Wilde
With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed… — Graham Coxon
At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of… — George Washington
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it… — Beryl Markham
Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision. — Herman Kahn
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life. — Scarlett Thomas
I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to… — Jim Broadbent
Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it… — Charles Caleb Colton
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
In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and… — Rachel Cusk
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
I hate the domestic life. — Daniel Day-Lewis
Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me… — Emma Thompson
I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any… — Nicole Krauss
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the… — Robert Gottlieb
I love domestic life. — Michelle Williams
I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in. — Frank McCourt

Who Wrote These Domestic Life Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 19 Domestic Life Quotes as follows: