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Quotes About Cleanliness

she barely moved and was, of course, concerned only with her own beautification and cleanliness. She dozed or was, at any rate, lying down, eyes closed, on her front, on her back, on one side, on the other, covered in sunscreen, her gleaming arms and legs always fully extended so that no part of her would remain untanned, no fold in her skin, even her armpits, even her groin (nor, it goes without saying, her buttocks)
~ Javier Marías
Está usted contaminando el mundo o limpiando el desorden? Usted es responsable de su estado interior; nadie más lo es, así como usted también es responsable por el planeta. Lo mismo que ocurre dentro, ocurre fuera: si los seres humanos limpian la contaminación interior, también dejarán de crear contaminación exterior.
~ Eckhart Tolle
He'd lived so much of his life for sexual love, which was a filthy thing, really, all that saliva and semen and anal smears, filthy! Much better to live alone and watch TV in bed or talk to Pierre-Georges as he was in his bed and watching the same movie. Both of them spotlessly clean.
~ Edmund White
Ironically, our desire to clean ourselves actually minimizes the problem of uncleanness. It assumes we can give ourselves a good enough scrubbing to get a little holy before we meet the Holy One.
~ Edward T. Welch
Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.
~ Aldous Huxley
The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
~ Donald Knuth
I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
What is elegance? Soap and water!
~ Cecil Beaton
It's human nature to take the easy route and leap at storage methods that promise quick and convenient ways to remove visible clutter. Putting things away creates the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved. But sooner or later, all the storage units are full, and the room once again overflows with things.
~ Marie Kondo
Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.
~ Chace Crawford
I'm a clean freak and a germaphobe - I have hand sanitizer in my pocket.
~ Brittany Murphy
As my face got cleaner, my relationships got cleaner.
~ Andra Day
I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
~ Sam Claflin
I don't like people cleaning my room.
~ Larry David
Cleanliness is the scourge of art.
~ Craig Brown
It's difficult to be clean and clever at the same time, but a lot of our stuff was.
~ Ronnie Corbett
I am really bad with cleaning my closet.
~ Irina Shayk
I get such a buzz out of cleaning closets.
~ Gretchen Rubin
I don't have advice for people on how to dress. People should dress based on what they find beautiful. My best advice: Keep your clothes clean.
~ Mos Def
I don't like a lot of clutter.
~ Sebastian Maniscalco
I hate clutter.
~ Barbara Barrie
I try to keep my shoes as clean as possible and make them complement the fit.
~ Quinn Cook
There is nothing in the world like health. Live cleanly, and the high thinking will look after itself - or at least won't matter. Physical condition - there's nothing like it.
~ Elizabeth Bibesco