domestic quotes

I've never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

- Alan Bennett
  FortyYears On (published1969), act1.

   Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
^2  Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.1.

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
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.6.

Whatever the economic value of the domestic industry of women is, they do not get it. The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

-Gilman and Charlotte Perkins Stetson
  Women and Economics:  A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, ch.1.

Observing these people I am no longer surprised that there is such a scarcity of domestic servants at home.

-W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
  Said in an uncharacteristically loud voice after being refused entry to the premier British expatriate club in Singapore. Quoted in Robert Calder Willie (1989).

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Servants'.