The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Quotes
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCAt the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCMany a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981