Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement. — Babe Paley Copy Share Image
“The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty... — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men,… — Robert Adam Copy Share Image
I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Here is a golden Rule… Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule! — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness.… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
[T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
There is no neatness in any life- great or small. It is only an illusion men foolishly pursue. All lived lives are… — Tarun J. Tejpal Copy Share Image
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order. [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
“I'd like to be tidy, said Hen, I try, but I guess you can't be what you aren't.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.” — William J. Harris Copy Share Image
“Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.” — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image