Maria Edgeworth Quotes

There's always something about home that's special.

'House' was such a special part of my life.

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.

Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.

Home is where your teapots are.

Home is where the heart is.

Home is the nicest word there is.

I love coming home.

It's always good to be home.

I have romantic ideas about home and what it should mean.

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.

It's not a house, it's a home.

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

Home's the most excellent place of all.

The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.

My house, my house, though thou art small, Thou art to me the Escurial.

"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."

When I dig back through memory cells, I get one particularly distinctive feeling-and that's one of warmth, comfort and well-being. For whatever else I may have had, or lost, or will find-I've still got a hometown. This, nobody's gonna take away from me.

There is no place like home.

Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

It's only a house when it's filled with people you love.