Domesticity Quotes

• We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Peace, Nice, Passion

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.24, Verso

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• The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

  Hannah More

  Spring, Comfort, Littles

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.205

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• The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

  Samuel Smiles

  Home, School, Discipline

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.

  James Sheridan Knowles

  House, Knows

  James Sheridan Knowles (1823). “Caius Gracchus: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.23

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Joy, Should

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.

  Henry Fielding

  Pain, Bad Friend, Men

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1840, Delphi Classics

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• Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

  Euripides

  Mother, Husband, Heart

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

  R. Heber Newton

  Mother, Wife, Fundamentals

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• A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Want, Pleasure, Private Life

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• Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

  Euripides

  Silence, House, Quiet

  Euripides (1808). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.487

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• The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Home, Adventure

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.125, 谷月社

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• The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

  William Penn

  Men, Water, Bitterness

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• Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

  James Howell

  Home, Paint, Used

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

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

  Mean, Underwear, Six Months

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, People, Wife

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.41

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• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Home, House

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.41

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• The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

  Tracy Kidder

  Expression, Combination, Wildness

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• As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

  Peg Bracken

  Wife, Done, Cold

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• Domesticity is a fact of how social structure works. So if you say, "Well being domestic as a female is a negative trait," then that would be like saying, "Having a family - because that's an economic unit designed to further the economic structures in the world - if you have a family then you're subjugated."

  Jim Jarmusch

  Facts, Negative, Female

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.

  Rebecca West

  Real, Drama, Home

  Rebecca West (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”

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• In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

  George Gissing

  Food, Grandmother, Cooking

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• Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.

  Ada Leverson

  Husband, Passion, Home

  Ada Leverson (2005). “Love at Second Sight”, p.143, 1st World Publishing

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

  Boris Johnson

  Done, Blameless

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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