not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was…

“Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The”

— Maya Angelou

what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below

— Charles Olson

Really I don't know anything other than Jersey. I like the dirtiness of it. Now I'm getting to see the world, and it's great,…

— Frank Iero

Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For…

— George Orwell

A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

— Pete Gill

So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in,…

— Jessica Sorensen

I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness…

— Frances Farmer

Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it… Dirtiness is inherent in…

— George Orwell

Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's…

— George Washington

A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with…

— Saint Augustine

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness…

— Charles Dickens

“Sweat cleaned you as effectively as water. But this was the race which had invented the proverb that cleanliness was next to godliness -…

— Graham Greene

Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

— Terry Pratchett

Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds.…

— Florynce Kennedy