Top 100 Best House Quotes
#1. Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.
Mary Jo Putney
#2. I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.
Kato Kaelin
#3. Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain't trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl what ain't waiting on some man to do what she ought to her own damn self.
J.D. Jordan
#4. Give him a crowd, a gallery worthy of his best effort, and the old warrior will put on his show ... He isn't what he use to be. But pack the stands, turn up the lights, and who is it brings down the house with his act? The Babe!
John J. Kiernan
#5. I knew I would lose my job when I accidentally set fire to my best friend's house.
Kathy Bryson
#6. There's only one force that's strong enough to conquer those in Witch House, and you know how to manipulate it; you turned one current off and the other on. It was the very best kind of distraction."
He said, "Love always is.
Evangeline Walton
#7. These things frighten people. It's best not to talk about them." "But, Dad, that's like ... like ignoring a fire in the living room because we're all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.
Octavia E. Butler
#8. Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.
Mike Tyson
#9. Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
Robert Herrick
#10. Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.
Tom Shales
#11. The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.
Martha Stewart
#12. I was shocked by the reaction I got for Bleak House. It was very intensive but one of the best jobs of my life. It was a chance to play a character that grows and develops and I was very enmeshed in it. But I didn't realise how stylish it was and how much people would love it.
Anna Maxwell Martin
#13. Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.
Edmund Morgan
#14. I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.
Holly Black
#15. I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.
James Turrell
#16. We had sex in every position i could imagine, and some i couldn't. we had sex in every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. you told me it was the best you'd ever had.
Charlaine Harris
#17. The past is a dark house, and we have only torches with dying batteries. It's probably best not to spend too much time in there in case the rotten floor gives way beneath our feet.
Mal Peet
#18. The best parties have always been at my house in Ibiza. They start with a bit of music and a barbecue by the pool.
Jade Jagger
#19. I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.
Gail Simmons
#20. Maximus turned to the house, thinking. He had no idea how he would do it yet, but he meant to best her. He'd show her that he was the master, and when she'd admitted his victory ... well, then he'd have her. And he'd hold her, by God. His huntress. His goddess.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#21. Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
Mark Twain
#22. Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my
house - do not pass by like a dream.
Rabindranath Tagore
#23. The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.
Christopher Walken
#24. That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.
George Herbert
#25. We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow.
And make our garden grow!
Leonard Bernstein
#26. I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
Tana French
#27. No matter how many indigested actions a female appears to exhibit to the male psyche, she is still a woman. She's the specialty of the house. However she doesn't come at a sale price. Considering her value, a woman is one of the best deals life has to offer.
Will Leamon
#28. Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.
Silas House
#29. I'm a crybaby, which means I barricade myself in my house and scream for awhile, and when it subsides enough that I can leave, I go for a run. Tears make great fuel. Night runs, or rainy days, are best for this as you don't get as many questioning looks.
Allison McAtee
#30. I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#31. When at work I have the best seat in the house for the greatest show on earth!!!
Unknown
#32. Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
C.S. Lewis
#33. My best friend - her name was Helena - lived in that house. Sometimes I used to spend the night with her. But more often she came to my house, on weekends. It was more fun to be in the country.
Lois Lowry
#34. I've lived in a flat in Westminster in London for over 20 years; and I also have a house in the country, down in Somerset, so I have the best of both worlds.
Marti Webb
#35. Writing a book should be the best way to break into someone's house.
Krishnaraj HK
#36. Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#37. In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.
Jennifer McMahon
#38. A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
Ivor Novello
#39. I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
Karl Pilkington
#40. All those night long phone calls! All those secret visits to my house! All those secret walks! And you're fond of me! You think I'm being over dramatic! How about I break your face open for over dramatics!" ~Becca
Annabell Cadiz
#41. I've won his heart, but it's like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it's not really marriage - not like the marriage you have with Cam - until he's willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.
Lisa Kleypas
#42. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments, soccer games, romances, best friends, location of friend's houses, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
Matt Groening
#43. The best thing about success was being able to buy my parents a house.
Bonnie Tyler
#44. Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
Kate Ashfield
#45. Perfect love, like perfect partner does not exist. We create our own perfect love. If you care to know, a a good partner is like a construction engineer. To build the kind of house he want, he must pick the material that best suits his needs and maybe his wallet too.
Augustine Sam
#46. I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish on the first toss, throw it back in the wagon and go to the second house.' Which is like an old Jewish fishmongers' story about how you become a successful fish monger.
Lin Shaye
#47. I watch Pretty Little Liars with my best friend Telly. We go to each other's houses when it airs and we watch it.
Naya Rivera
#48. To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
Hamilton Jordan
#49. I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#50. Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
Dick Cavett
#51. I know what's best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.
Florence Harding
#52. Breaking into the house in the middle of the night just wasn't his style. He did his best work in plain view, and, usually, his tongue was doing most of it.
Now that was an interesting thought. Heh.
Ilona Andrews
#53. A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. - I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at his house almost every night. Those people were very special and very special for me.
James Darren
#54. Mormonism is the house whose walls I know best. It is the story I am not abandoning because it is the story I choose-and in many ways gas chosen me-again and again to grapple with. Mormonism is my native spiritual language and many of the threads with which my life's tapestry is woven.
Ashley Mae Hoiland
#55. I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,
the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.
Robert Southey
#56. I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.
Max Azria
#57. To have entered a strange house, and to have consumed the best part of a cake without the knowledge or consent of the lawful owners, was a solecism worthy of severe retribution.
Jennifer Worth
#58. I knew that the best way to get out of chores, or sports, or talking to elderly relatives on the phone was by holding up a book and saying, But I'm just enjoying Little House on the Prairie so much!
Mindy Kaling
#59. The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab.
Robin Wright
#60. We have a saying in my house, my kids and my girlfriend. We say, 'Be your best for the greater good, and rock out wherever you are.'
Michael Franti
#61. The chili-rubbed rib-eye at Porter House New York is one of the best steaks that I've eaten anywhere in the world.
Martin Bashir
#62. I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house.
Sara Shepard
#63. The Liberal party has always worked with multiple parties in the House to make sure we're being governed in the best interest of Canadians.
Justin Trudeau
#64. The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
Ice Cube
#65. Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.
Wilfrid Laurier
#66. Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.
Jerry Spinelli
#67. With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
Levon Helm
#68. I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.
Bruce Chatwin
#69. To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind offreedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.
John Dos Passos
#70. I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag.
Ian Watson
#71. The best thing for the American public is that we do our job. That Washington changes. That the Senate and the House get together and fix their differences and find common ground.
Kevin McCarthy
#72. Sometimes I worry that we're too happy, but then a visit to Nana's house brings things into focus. We're happy because we want to be, because we're pouring our energy and emotion into each other in the best possible way. My
Elle Kennedy
#73. My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.
Tyler Perry
#74. I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.
Coco Chanel
#75. When it comes to the subject it's best to understand that
white people do not recognize public transit as a viable option until a subway line is built that runs directly from their house to their work.
Christian Lander
#76. For the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.
Vladimir Nabokov
#77. WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!
Tom Peters
#78. Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.
Nancy Pelosi
#79. He seemed as graciously at home as in the best restaurants of the city; his elegance had an odd quality here - it did not insult the place, but seemed to transform it, like the presence of a king who never alters his manner, yet makes a palace of any house he enters.
Ayn Rand
#80. The best love advice I've ever received is probably, 'I'm not leaving the relationship; I'm just leaving the house.'
Joe Manganiello
#81. The best standard of living will be attained when your house will be filled with God's blessings.
Moazzam Shaikh
#82. The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.
G.K. Chesterton
#83. Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#84. A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.
Lillian Hellman
#85. Basketball is what got me out of the projects. It got my momma the house she never had, the car she never had. Nobody is going to get the best of me. You might score more points than me, but you're going to know you were in a dogfight.
Kenyon Martin
#86. There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.
Giada De Laurentiis
#87. The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.
Homer
#88. I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
Irvine Welsh
#89. That was the best thing about the house. It was never finished. There was always a screw somewhere for Ove to tighten. On
Fredrik Backman
#90. I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew.
Peter Eisenman
#91. When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to his house, the first thing I would say to him was 'Levester' - His name was Levester - I said, 'Levester, can I go play your piano?' So, on my 7th birthday, my parents bought me a piano.
Herbie Hancock
#92. Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.
Brent Musburger
#93. The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.
Robert Gottlieb
#94. You are so good. So good, you're always feeling so much. And sometimes it feels like you're gonna bust wide open from all the feeling, doesn't it? People like you are the best in the world, but you sure do suffer for it.
Silas House
#95. When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television.
Antony Beevor
#96. Here are some of the best Minecraft jokes for kids. Player 1: If creepers would actually invade my house in real life, I would throw them some nuts and bolts. Player 2: That's really lame. Why would you do that? Player 1: Because I'm sssssssscrewed!
Max Tyler
#97. When in the house of the enemy, the best rooms are always the ones with the lights out.
Dean F. Wilson
#98. I write to withdraw as a nominee to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States ... I am concerned that the confirmation process presents a burden for the White House and our staff that is not in the best interest of the country.
Harriet Miers
#99. On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think they probably sound like us when they're in the house. It's how they keep people away from them.
Russell Peters
#100. Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.
Dan B. Allender