Domestic Life Quotes
19 Domestic Life quotes by 19 unique authors
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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
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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
— Scarlett Thomas
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I hate the domestic life.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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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
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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
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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
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I love domestic life.
— Michelle Williams
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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: