Domestic Chores Quotes

People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither would take the garbage out.

Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.

The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

I've been lucky, my wife's been amazing. Any time we've had cricket matches she sends me to the spare room to get some sleep. She takes care of everything.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

I've never been a guy who was anal about housework. A typical Wellington flat when I was flatting was a warehouse with, basically, sheets hung up for walls.

I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.

It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.

I will happily sit at home and take care of the house.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

Oh, I've never gone off into that 'the room's not the right temperature, take this tea back' stuff. I still scrub my own toilet and vacuum the carpet, and I have to be able to push my trolley around Morrisons and do my shopping.

I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato.

English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes.

I'm getting all domesticated. I feel like Susie the homemaker.

I'm not very romantic. My idea of romance is more practical - like washing the car.

It all comes down to who does the dishes.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.