Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.... -Thornton Wilder

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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Thornton Wilder , Novelist
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Thornton Wilder Quotes to Explore

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous....
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for....
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home....
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home....
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday....
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much....
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose....
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness....
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder....
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests....

Home Quotes to Explore

I love home, any home really - my mum's, and of course my own. I love eating food there and chilling in bed with a cup of tea....
I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scrat...
Whether core al Qaeda or its offshoots like AQAP, ISIS, or the many others - we are working with our partners to find and disrupt them, wherever they ...
In my house, I'm not allowed to shout at anybody. It's very strict. It's a very Christian home....
I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home....
You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel great about cooking a good dinner and making a dre...
I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left ho...
I don't think too much about mechanics. I just like to go up there and swing. It's more than my swing, though. It's my mindset. I always go to home pl...
I have a home in Puerto Rico, and I see what is happening on the islands there....
I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith....