At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925
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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCHome is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582