Dwelling Quote by Stephen Gardiner

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

— Elsie de Wolfe

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

— Victor Hugo

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

— Stephen Gardiner

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract…

— Marguerite Duras

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort,…

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

— Stephen Gardiner

Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in…

— Flora Thompson

It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did…

— Madeleine Roux

It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like…

— Susanna Clarke

Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.

— Milorad Pavić

The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.

— George Herbert

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an…

— Susanna Clarke