Domesticity Quotes

“Sadie, Sadie, married lady, that's what I want to be.”

“There is a great deal of poetry in a receipt-book.”

“The care of the home is the most important of all industries.”

“I hate housework. You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again.”

“For I am sick of duties, A household's trivial round, Wherein no high adventure, No ecstasy is found.”

“The true history of a country is not in its wars, but in its households.”

“I'm about as domestic as a shark.”

“Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”

“The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.”

“I can't cook. I'm not a domestic goddess at all.”

“I just want to be a housewife. I'd love to be a housewife. I'm a good cook and I'm a good cleaner and I love children.”

“Some respite to husbands the weather may send, but housewives’ affairs have never an end.”