Domesticity Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a…

— C.S. Lewis

“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places.”

— Anonymous

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Russian regime de jure recognition. The fork in the road for father and son, both philosophically and physically, was the New World. In the…

— Andrew Morton

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

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

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

“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

“Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or a goddamn wish fulfillment.”

— Brian McGreevy

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

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

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