“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
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
We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art. — Eli Siegel 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
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
“I recalled thinking...His freakishly tidy side could be a problem. To say that neatness was not my strong suit would be a… — Betsy Cook Speer 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
Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Scully liked neatness and order. This office was her notion of a nightmare. She had no idea how Mulder ever found anything… — Les Martin 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
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
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
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
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
