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Home Quotes

Updated: Mar 20, 2025

Home is the residence not merely of the body, but of the heart.

Annie E Lancaster


A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Sydney Smith


There is nothing more calming than an organised home.



Home is everything you can walk to.

Jerry Spinelli


No place is more delightful than one’s own fireside.

Cicero


But what on earth is half so dear – so longed for – as the hearth of home.

Emily Bronte


The well-being of society, the success of the church, the prosperity of the nation, depend upon home influences.

Ellen G White


Anyone who works at home needs a refuge from the rest of the household, as far from the house as possible, and definitely without a phone. Mine is in one corner of the garden, overlooking a vegetable patch and young orchard, and I feel great happiness in it.

Louis de Bernieres


A true home is the finest ideal of man.

F L Wright


The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Thomas More


Home is where your story begins.



Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

Jane Austen


Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.



He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Goethe


One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.



Home wasn’t built in a day.



The road to home happiness lies over small stepping stones.

E Jesse


Home, dear home! However small thou art, thou art a palace.

Guicciardini


Nothing in this world is more beautiful than a happy home.

T Tilton


What a man is at home, that he is, indeed, if not to the world, yet to his own conscience and to God.

R Philip


Home should be a place of repose, of peace, of cheerfulness, of comfort, where the soul can renew strength to encounter the labour and troubles of life.

James Ellis


A happy home is the heaven of this life.

R Bonner


Home is the chief school of human virtue; its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.

Channing


A true home is more than the world, more than honour, and pride, and fortune.

A Barrett


To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which all enterprise and labour tends.

Samuel Johnson


No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Lin Yutang


Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.

Jane Austen

2025

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