Character Quote by Ani DiFranco

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

— Ani DiFranco

I agree that a well groomed appearance or a slovenly appearance says a lot about one's character.

— Gloria Gaynor

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Heaven doesn't need dusting. The only tidying that remains is to continue growing in goodness, and goodness knows, for most of us there is…

— Carolyn Hart

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even the duster in my house has to be beautiful; no old piece of cloth will ever be used in its place.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

“It’s often said that cleaning your house is like polishing yourself. I think that this is a golden rule. It isn’t just dust and…

— Fumio Sasaki

[T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

— Colleen McCullough

Look what a little vain dust we are!

— Joseph Addison

“Our loathing of dirt may be so great as to prevent our cleaning ourselves—"justifying" ourselves.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I find I don't need to be polished. I feel that you have to keep it real, and that's the best way to go.

— Christina Milian