Home / Topics / Home Quotes

Home Quotes

Browse 16539 quotes about Home.

Home Quotes

“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.”

Men Want Home Passion Born Husband Get Away Stay At Home Domesticity

Book:Love at Second Sight

Source: Love at Second Sight

“Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.”

Men World Home Earth Liberty Modern Worst Adventure Truth Is Tasks Notion Experiments Spots Variety Dull Routine Arrangements Indulge Whim Indulge In Decorum Domesticity Wild Places

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Home Used Paint Housewife Imports Snail Domesticity

Author:James Howell

“This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.”

Heart Littles Home Turns House Domesticity Sphinx

Book:Essays in Idleness

Source: Essays in Idleness

“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.”

Real Home Personality Drama Conflict Areas Exciting Active Concentration Objections Housework Domesticity

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“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.”

Home School Young Life Is Discipline Training Method Family Life Domesticity Best School

Book:Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance

Source: Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance