Housekeepers Quotes

• There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Men, Littles, Little Things

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!

  Louisa May Alcott

  Baby, Heart, Ambition

  Louisa May Alcott (2014). “Work: A Story of Experience: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.706, Library of America

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• I was always a good housekeeper. Whenever I divorced I always kept the house.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  House, Divorced

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• Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
  As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
  Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept
  All by the name of dogs: the valued file
  Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
  The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
  According to the gift which bounteous nature
  Hath in him closed.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Names

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.

  Victoria Beckham

  Running, Home, Nannies

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• Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, People, Dirt

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• Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

  Thornton Wilder

  Funny, Marriage, Thinking

  Merchant of Yonkers (1939) act 1

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• But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Real, Men

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.423, Xist Publishing

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• All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.

  Willie Pep

  Divorce, Boxing, Wife

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• When you’re a housekeeper’s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.

  Laraine Day

  Daughter, Doors, Half

  "Fictional character: Nancy Monks Blair Patton". "The Locket", www.imdb.com. December 20, 1946.

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• Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper!

  Tom Bergeron

  People, Dancing, Movement

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• I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

  Lynn Freed

  Children, Earth, Matter

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• "I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I think the crop will be poor." Ignoring her remark, the editor caused to be inserted in the evening paper his estimate of the crop situation. That night when he returned home he found the housekeeper waiting for him with a sheepish grin on her face and a copy of the paper in her hand. "I was wrong," she said apologetically. "It says right here in the paper that the crop will be excellent this fall."

  James Keller

  Morning, Fall, Home

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• Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Husband, Lying, Humorous

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1192, GENERAL PRESS

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• The way we treat people we think can't help or hurt us - like housekeepers, waiters, and secretaries - tells more about our character than how we treat people we think are important. How we behave when we think no one is looking or when we don't think we will get caught more accurately portrays our character than what we say or do in service of our reputations.

  Michael Josephson

  Hurt, Character, Thinking

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• I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Clever, House, Divorced

  "Zsa Zsa Gabor, first U.S. star famous for being famous, dead at 99". www.rappler.com. December 19, 2016.

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• I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

  Dennis Quaid

  Mother, Growing Up, Drinking

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• The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Guests, Cleaning, Advantage

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• I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.

  Colm Toibin

  Girl, Nice, Boys

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• Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Depression, Years, Black

  Sebastian Faulks (2000). “Charlotte Gray: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Lying, Wife, Inspire

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.834, Race Point Publishing

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• Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Strong, Lying, Home

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wine, Oysters, White

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “All about Sherlock Holmes”, p.177, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• The look she gave me reminded me of when is was seven and I'd proudly informed out housekeeper that I'd donated half my clothing to a charity drive at school. It had seemed perfectly sensible to me-I didn't need so much stuff-but she'd stared at me like Margaret was now, with a mix of horror and disbelief.

  Kelley Armstrong

  School, Needs, Looks

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• The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Heaven, Empires

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