house quotes

“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”

— Winston Churchill

“I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.”

— Antonio Banderas

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

— Jane Austen

“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. ”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”

— Honore de Balzac

“My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? ”

— Sophocles

“It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.”

— Franz Kafka

“I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.' ”

— Robert Rodriguez

“I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. ”

— Sai Baba

“I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience. ”

— Jim Carrey

“If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression. ”

— Jim Carrey

“Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house. ”

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“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

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”

— George Carlin

“Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”

— Edward Hopper

“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”

— Edward Hopper

“There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.”

— Edward Hopper

“I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.”

— Kim Kardashian

“I always say you shouldn't weigh yourself. I don't even have a set of scales in my house.”

— Kim Kardashian

“We're news junkies in my house.”

— Stephen King

“I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.”

— Stephen King