Neatness Quotes

Neatness Quote of the day

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

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.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order. [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.]

Niggards are oftentimes neat.

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth but himself.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.

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

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.

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

Don't sell the warmer for an air conditioner just because its summer, for in winter, you will have to do the reverse.

Never forget a man who weathered and rescued you from the storm just because you can see the shores.

Don't cheat the foundation of a house because you want to save for the roofing for at the end, you will have only roofed rubbles.

Don't only learn from the rich and successful men, also learn from the poor and those that failed woefully, for in their failures lies the secret of success as well.

Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.

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