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
Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty... — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's. — Kevin McCloud 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
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
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
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
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
The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. — Francois Fenelon 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
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
Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant… — George Armstrong Custer 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
We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order. [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.] — Ovid 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
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
You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
