Domestic Quotes

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign. (Mae West)
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution. View quote
Learned Hand
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. View quote
James Thurber
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. View quote
George Santayana
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. View quote
Agatha Christie
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. View quote
George Steiner
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. View quote
Edmund Burke
Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy. View quote
Martin Feldstein
CAT, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Domestic happiness, thou only blissOf Paradise that has survived the fall. (William Cowper)
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality it strikes at the rootof all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs. View quote
Howard Coble
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. View quote
Jilly Cooper
Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry. View quote
Michael Burgess
Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. View quote
William Robertson Smith
Piracy has destroyed the domestic market. View quote
Zhang Yimou
In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second, Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea - by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth. View quote
Germaine Greer
From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty. View quote
Daniel Webster
I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this State, against every aggression either foreign or domestic, and that they will support the Government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former. View quote
James Madison