Domesticity Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Domesticity". There are currently 60 quotes in our collection about Domesticity. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Domesticity!
The best sayings about Domesticity that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

    Cooking   Sides   Showy  
  • I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

    Shopping   Firsts   Lists  
    "Kristen Stewart's 'humiliated' boyfriend Robert Pattinson moves out, wife of Rupert Sanders bemoans 'isolation' from husband". www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2012.
  • The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity and order, proportion, colour and utility, and, furthermore, be capable of arousing feelings of grandeur, gaiety, sadness, wildness, domesticity, surprise and secrecy.

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

    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”
  • I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.

    East   Rooms   Fit  
    "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 21, 1968.
  • Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Let us pray to the Lord and ask him to protect the family in the crisis with which the devil wants to destroy it. Families are the domestic church where Jesus grows in the love of a married couple, in the lives of their children.

    Jesus   Children   Couple  
  • This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.

    Home   Heart   House  
    Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”
  • I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it. The people who intensify it seem to get quite a lot of interest out of that, too, and are as preoccupied as pirates.

    People   Pirate   Choices  
    Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”
  • There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing it as an ever-increasing roll of words like barbed wire, intricate, bewildering, uncomforting—set against the rich productions, the food, flowers, and knitted garments, of other women’s domesticity. It became harder to say that it was worth the trouble.

    Flower   Home   Eye  
    Alice Munro (2002). “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories”, Vintage
  • Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.

    Long   People   Meat  
  • I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.

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

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.

    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.280, Simon and Schuster
  • There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

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

  • I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.

  • 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.

    Husband   Passion   Home  
    Ada Leverson (2005). “Love at Second Sight”, p.143, 1st World Publishing
  • Home joys are blessed of heaven.

    Blessed   Home   Joy  
  • As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.

    Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.18, Random House
  • Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that children didn't need them much. Mothers, who might be too soft and sentimental, could even be bad for children's character development. But when men left home during the Industrial Revolution to work elsewhere, women were "needed" at home. The cult of domesticity and motherhood became a virtue that kept women in their place.

    Mother   Children   Work  
  • Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.

    Source: www.rollingstone.com
  • I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.

    Song   Writing   Thinking  
  • 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."

    Facts   Negative   Female  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.

  • If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at he root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence.

    Real   Lying   Roots  
  • What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?

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

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

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

    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
Page 1 of 2
  • 1
  • 2
  • We hope our collection of Domesticity quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Domesticity is constantly growing (today it includes 60 sayings from famous people about Domesticity), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Domesticity!