We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art. — Eli Siegel 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
“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
“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
Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to keep things clean. It's just the neatness I struggle with. — Kate Garraway 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
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. — Francois Fenelon 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
I must say that I am not very genteel and I feel that gentility has a stranglehold: the neatness, the wonderful tidiness,… — Sylvia Plath 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
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
Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
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
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
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
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
'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
Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty... — Winston Churchill 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
We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order. [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
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