Home Quotes

The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land.
- Mrs Felicia D Hemans

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.
- Marguerite Duras

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.
- Madison Julius Cawein

When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose, And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock, And summer is near its close-- It's - Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane; And dusk, and dew, and home agai.
- Madison Julius Caweinn!

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
- Lord Edward Coke

For a man's house is his castle.
- Lord Edward Coke

A house is a machine for living in.
- Le Corbusier

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours.
- Lady Kasluck

Home is home, though it be never so homely.
- John Clarke

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 K Jerome