Quotes about home

"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."

Bachelard, Gaston on home
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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

Bacon, Francis on home   

"People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors."

Betjeman, John on home   

"Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need."

Breathnach, Sarah Ban on home
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"There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again."

Bryson, Bill on home   

"An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed."

Butler, Samuel on home   

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"The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice."

Byron, Lord on home
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"Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore."

Campion, Thomas on home   

"You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne."

Cervantes, Miguel De on home   

"A man's home is his wife's castle."

Chase, Alexander on home
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"The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail -- its roof may shake -- the wind may blow through it -- the storm may enter -- the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter! -- all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!"

Chatham, William Pitt The Elder, Lord on home   

"Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings."

Child, Lydia M. on home
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"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us."

Churchill, Winston on home
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"There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace."

Cicero, Marcus T. on home
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"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on home   

"Going home must be like going to render an account."

Conrad, Joseph on home   

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"A house is a machine for living in."

Corbusier, Le on home   

"Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does."

Dane, Frank on home
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"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration."

Dickens, Charles on home
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"Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb?"

Dickinson, Emily on home   

"Where thou art, that is home."

Dickinson, Emily on home
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"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

Douglas, Norman on home   

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"The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it."

Duras, Marguerite on home   

"A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began."

Duras, Marguerite on home   

"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."

Esar, Evan on home   

"There is no sanctuary of virtue like home."

Everett, Edward on home
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"Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence."

Ford, Richard on home   

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."

Frost, Robert on home
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"Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them."

Fry, Stephen on home   

"He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on home
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"Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on home   

"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."

Hesse, Hermann on home
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"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."

Howe, Edgar Watson on home
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"The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store."

Hubbard, Kin on home   

"I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house."

Jerome, Jerome K. on home   

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"Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house."

Johnson, Ben on home
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"It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence."

Johnson, Samuel on home   

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

Johnson, Samuel on home   

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"The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on home   

"Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments."

King, Florence on home