Neatness Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness…
— Jane Austen
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Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
— Laila Lalami
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In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in…
— Robert Adam
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
— Francois Fenelon
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'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness:…
— Samuel Johnson
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We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.
— Eli Siegel
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One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that…
— Eli Siegel
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I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.
— Kevin McCloud
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You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call…
— Jane Austen
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The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of…
— Theophile Gautier
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I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life,…
— Jack Gilbert
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Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.
— Babe Paley
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Love in the peace of the blessing in the inheritance with a god in the worship of the man and an attraction in neatness is…
— Melchor Lim
Who Wrote These Neatness Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 20 Neatness Quotes as follows: