Quotes About House I

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
~ Gaston Bachelard

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
~ Francis Bacon

People’s backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
~ John Betjeman

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

There are things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.
~ Bill Bryson

An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
~ Samuel Butler