Domestic Life Quotes

• Estos fragmentos he apuntalado contra mis ruinas

  T. S. Eliot

  Edad, Ruinas, Nostalgia

  La tierra baldía l. 431 (1922)

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• When I think about the reference to baroque, I'm most interested in how art was integrated into domestic life. That's why I like fresco, because fresco is part of the wall. It's art, but it's decoration at the same time.

  Camille Henrot

  Art, Wall, Thinking

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No me considero un héroe de acción, en absoluto. Mi vida doméstica es la misma que la de cualquier otra persona.

  Chris Vance

  Hero, Action, Life Is

  Fuente: collider.com

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• My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Ideas, Bigs, Minutiae

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• Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Retirement, Women, Flower

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.81

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• La vida doméstica feliz es como una hermosa tarde de verano; el corazón se llena de paz, y todo alrededor adquiere una gloria peculiar.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Felicidad, Hermoso, Verano

  Hans Christian Andersen (2013). "La verdadera historia de mi vida", p.143, Lulu Press, Inc.

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• Subyugando y subyugada, la pequeña lucha, Que nubla el color de la vida doméstica; El sobrio consuelo, toda la paz que brota Del gran conjunto de pequeñas cosas; De estos pequeños cuidados de hija, esposa o amiga, Dependen las alegrías casi sagradas del hogar.

  Hannah Más

  Daughter, Spring, Women

  Hannah More (1840). "The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More", p.205

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• In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Stronger, Care

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• The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

  William Penn

  Men, Water, Bitterness

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• Una propensión morbosa que causa gran sufrimiento en la vida doméstica suele ser curiosamente contagiosa para la misma persona a la que crea más sufrimiento.

  Ada Leverson

  Suffering, Causes, Life Is

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• To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life, unaccustomed to the din of arms, totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill ... makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows.

  George Washington

  Military, Men, Skills

  George Washington (1871). “Words of Washington”, p.61

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• The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Eye, Class, Portions

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to protect myself. I'm quite lucky that I can carry on without any intrusions. I don't get given a hard time by anyone.

  Jim Broadbent

  Hate, Hard Times, Ordinary

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• I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Patterns, Habit, Very Good

  "Ralph Fiennes: 'I have huge respect for J.Lo, she was terribly good'". Details interview, www.celebitchy.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

  John le Carre

  Fatherhood, Example, Able

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• In domestic life the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She "wants" to be at home, and because she is a woman she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.

  Rachel Cusk

  Home, Desire, Want

  "The simmering but stymied rage of stay-at-home mums" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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• I hate the domestic life.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Odio, Odio

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• El General era esencialmente un hombre de paz, excepto en su vida doméstica.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny Relationship, Men, Luck

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.306, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any time, without any effort. The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice.

  Nicole Krauss

  Lakes, Light, Ice

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• Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.

  Emma Thompson

  Dream, Real, Home

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• The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Imagination, Routine

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• ¿Cuál es el fundamento de ese interés que todos los hombres sienten por la historia, las letras, el arte y la poesía griegas, en todos sus períodos, desde la época heroica u homérica hasta la vida doméstica de atenienses y espartanos, cuatro o cinco siglos más tarde? Qué sino esto, que cada hombre pasa personalmente por un período griego.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Arte, Hombres, Griego

  Ralph Waldo Emerson David Mikics (2012). "The Annotated Emerson", p.150, Harvard University Press.

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• With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

  Graham Coxon

  Hija, Madre, Pensamiento

  Interview with Alex McCann, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and the great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.

  George Washington

  Retirement, Heart, Humble

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.412

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• Es absurdo que un hombre mate a un elefante. No es brutal, no es heroico y, desde luego, no es fácil; es una de esas cosas absurdas que hacen los hombres, como poner una presa en un gran río, una décima parte de cuyo caudal podría engullir a toda la humanidad sin perturbar la vida doméstica de un solo siluro.

  Beryl Markham

  Animal, Men, Elephants

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media

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