Quotes About Neatness

I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.

Tinker wrote neatly, though his spelling was not good, Ruth's recipes would never fail for confusion between 'add sugar' and 'seethe', but Jane's writing looked like an intoxicated inky spider had staggered across the page on the way to the bar for another drink. Which it really didn't need.

Take a look at this there's no caking in the corners

Have a place for everything and have everything in its place.

about "closure" and how worthless it was—why was it that everyone these days needed resolution, why couldn't they just accept that life was messy, that it never ended neatly?

My mum loved housework, she basically had OCD.

Men and women have different ideas of what constitutes tidiness. I tend to think it's about things being clean, but my mum and girlfriend are more about how things look.

The floor was strewn with loose straw. Everything was scrupulously clean

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

I don't iron my underwear and socks, but I like things to be organised.

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 in his hands.

I clean my house, although I have help. I'm on the floor getting spots. I can't stand a dirty house. I'm a cleaning fanatic.

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 order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

I've got an allergy to looking too neat.

When I ride, I always like to look neat.

My locker is a business place. I keep my locker really neat, which I think is different than most people.

What is poor? We had food. We dressed well. We didn't have a lot, but what we had fit, and it was always neat.

As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged 'just so.'

I'm a freak of neat. The kitchen has to be clean.

It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages.

I'm an OCD neat freak. I can't stand messes. I make my bed every morning. Laundry. I do it all.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to keep things clean. It's just the neatness I struggle with.