Quotes About Neatness

When he lifted the cover of one of the trash cans, before emptying the contents of his own pail into it, he was always astonished by its neatness and order. His own trash was the most indecent collection in the entire building. Repugnant and despicable. There was no resemblance between it and the honest, day-to-day trash of the other tenants. That had a solid, respectable appearance, and his did not.

We have been hijacked by the modern world, where rules, principles, and propositions have explained how everything works neatly—including God.

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

the fun of keeping things in them. He was not a very tidy boy in general, but he did like arranging things in cupboards and drawers and then opening them later and finding them just as he'd left them.

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

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.

My life had a tendency to spread, get flabby, to scroll and festoon like the frame of a baroque mirror, which came from following the line of least resistance. I wanted my death, by contrast, to be neat and simple, understated, even a little severe, like a Quaker church or the basic black dress with a single strand of pearls...

It did make a mess; but then, I don't think I'll ever be a very tidy person.

Rosie had to keep her room neat enough so James would not freak out, but not so neat that they could figure it all out, break the code, of who you truly were, what you were up to, your values, your truest parts. ... you were layer upon layer of ideas and erasures and new ideas and soul and images. [p. 68]

Some kids are raised in a mess, Ada said, and they say, 'When I'm on my own, I'll be neater than God.' Others are raised in a mess and they say, 'Life is a mess, looks like, and that's just the way it is.' It's got nothing to do with their upbringing.

It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.

tidying with what a couple of the other pianists had called her obsessive-compulsive neatness. Well, could she help it if she liked the sheet music alphabetized? And then put in numerical order according to the year it was written?

Los trucos más brillantes han sido siempre los más sencillos. Firmin Richard.

The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.

There's a lovely character in 'Under Milk Wood' called Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard and she's incredibly tidy and clean. She really is unbearably tidy and clean! And I terrorize my husband when he comes in sometimes from shooting and there's awful dead birds all over the hall that he calls me Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard.

I like all my jackets to be on wooden coat hangers, all facing the same direction.

I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.

I'd like to tidy up the entire planet. I would go anywhere if there were something that needs tidying.

I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right.

I'm a neat freak. I find I work best when I feel organised and together, and as I work from home, that means my house is always so tidy!