Housekeepers Quotes - Page 2

• Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Marriage, Partnership, Businessman

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.27, BookBaby

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
  [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]

  George Herbert

  House, Fats, Keepers

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• If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Men, Cooks, Dividends

  1920 Economics ofWelfare.

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• My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Tea, Drs, Cups

  Flannery O'Connor (2014). “Mystery and Manners”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Doubt, Tradition

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.103, Xist Publishing

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• In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought to have some definite plan, while they were children, what to be and do when they were grown up. There was usually but one path open before them, to become good wives and housekeepers. And the ambition of most girls was to follow their mothers' footsteps in this direction; a natural and laudable ambition. But girls, as well as boys, must often have been conscious of their own peculiar capabilities,--must have desired to cultivate and make use of their individual powers.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• In everyday life I am quiet and reserved, not the housekeeper type but cool and relaxed. I don't get up in the morning wearing false eyelashes and I don't wear fancy underwear when I'm cooking popcorn. I'm a nice little ducky.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Morning, Nice, Eyelashes

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• The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.

  Pablo Picasso

  Earth

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• A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.

  Andre Maurois

  Morning, Done, Cleaning

  Andre Maurois (2007). “An Art of Living”, p.161, SpiralPress

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• In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

  Bill Condon

  Black, Hollywood, Maids

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• Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new souls, drawn at random for some celestial cupboard where God keeps an unending supply?Or the same soul, immortal and eternal, refurbished and reused through endless lives, by that thrifty Housekeeper? In Her wisdom and benevolence She wipes off the memory slates, as part of the cleaning process, because if we could remember all the things we have experienced in earlier lives, we might object to risking it again.

  Barbara Mertz

  Memories, Years, Soul

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• The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman. I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being - every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

  Lucy Stone

  Teacher, Memories, Disappointment

  Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier, 1972.

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• My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Mom, Hands, Way

  "Jesmyn Ward: 'I wanted to write about the people of the south'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?

  Tate Taylor

  Writing, Years, President

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• There's nothing my housekeeper does that I can't do - and maybe better!

  Ivana Trump

  Doe, I Can

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• It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.

  Emily Matchar

  Doe, Buckets, Vinegar

  Emily Matchar (2015). “Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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