Quotes About Neatness

The real beauty of life is in orderliness.

Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

The simplicity of this case offends me. It's so neat, it's like a preconception. One thing you can be sure about any preconception. It's wrong. If there's a God and he tried to preconceive the world, he got it wrong.

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they're color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.

I like things simple.

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 and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

I love to clean.

There's no getting away from it: you have to clean.

I don't like a lot of clutter.

I hate clutter.

Then, as now, neatness in dress and form, with a strict conformity to the rules, were the qualifications required for office, and I suppose I was found not to excel in any of these.

Desire to dwell in a clean environment.

Desire to dwell in clean environment.

I love a Dustbuster. You go around, pick up little crumbs, and everything is nice again.

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables, for that matter.

Being tall is very good for reaching high shelves and seeing in a crowd. Sadly, it has also given me the inability to dance. There's too much of me to look neat, which is most disappointing.

I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something -- like, say, organization ...

When a leader comes along who eliminates the tension and dodges the paradox and neatly and precisely explains who the enemies are and gives black-and-white answers to questions, leaving little room for the very real mystery of the divine, it should not surprise us when that person gains a large audience. Especially if that person is really, really confident.