Slovenly Quotes

22 Slovenly quotes by 20 unique authors

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard… — Maya Angelou
The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our… — Oswald Chambers
When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers… — Sun Tzu
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's… — William Faulkner
A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts… — William Matthews
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the… — Jane Austen
An artist cannot do anything slovenly. — Jane Austen
Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of… — Richard M. Weaver
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. — Brenda Ueland
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of… — Hermann Hesse
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. — Winston Churchill
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the… — William C. Bryant
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. — William Wycherley
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with… — Mary McCarthy
Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and… — Roger Angell
Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to… — Fred Melamed
When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway… — Charlie Chaplin
Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times… — Joshua Jackson
We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards. — John W. Gardner
The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congressthese, for the… — Mary McCarthy

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