Neatness Quotes

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

  Julia McNair Wright

  Real, Order, Real Beauty

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Love, Friendship, Order

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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

  Francois Fenelon

  Mind, Facts, Virtue

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Fashion, Men

  Jane Austen (2014). “Northanger Abbey: An Annotated Edition”, p.144, Harvard University Press

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• As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.

  Josh Billings

  Moral, Individual, Neat

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• Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Order, Nymphs

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• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Women, Hands

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.160

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

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Habitat, Behavior, Natural

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• Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Grace, Womanhood

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• Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Virtue, Symmetry

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

  Francis Bacon

  Next, Sin, Cleanliness

  "Advancement of Learning" by Francis Bacon, (Book II), 1605.

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

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Desire, Should

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

  William Blake

  Ideas, Sublime, Execution

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.646, Univ of California Press

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

  Ovid

  Hair, Order, Charmed

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• 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.

  Theophile Gautier

  Friendship, Philosophical, Cat

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• Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Character, Style, Add

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• 'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and finish. 'It's as if the morbid condition was an evil creature which, when it found itself closely hunted, flew at the throat of its pursuer. If you worry the microbes too much they may worry you. I've seen cases of it, and not necessarily in microbic diseases either. There was, of course, the well-known instance of Liston and the aneurism; and a dozen others that I could mention.'

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Evil, Worry

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.6714, Delphi Classics

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• Niggards are oftentimes neat.

  Herman Melville

  Niggard, Neat

  Herman Melville (2015). “Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville”, p.219, 谷月社

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• 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.

  Frances Trollope

  Perseverance, Scotch, Yankees

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• There is no neatness in any life- great or small. It is only an illusion men foolishly pursue.
  All lived lives are a mess.
  The neatness in my life had begun to crumble some time before, but now it disintegrated completely as I vanished into a world of endlessly opening doors, teasing riddles and lives without boundaries.
  For the first time I began to understand how shallow neatness is.
  How cramping, how limiting.
  For the first time I understood neat lives are comatose lives. (the Alchemy of Desire 304)

  Tarun J. Tejpal

  Men, Doors, Desire

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• One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that is keen is also a knife that cuts neatly; it isn't brutal. Sharpness is different from brutality. Brutality is clumsy: it is wide - it has a lot of fist and thumb and no delicate finger.

  Eli Siegel

  Mean, Cutting, Knives

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• The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write.

  Chad Harbach

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.

  Jack Gilbert

  Running, Pain, Real

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf

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• As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of toil. It ensures the necessary vacation in those earthly and turbulent anxieties and affections, which would otherwise become inordinate and morbid. It brings around a season of periodical neatness and decency, when the soil of weekly labour is laid aside, and men meet each other amidst the decencies of the sanctuary, and renew their social affections. But above all, a Sabbath (one day of rest in seven) is necessary for man's moral and religious interests.

  Robert Dabney

  Religious, War, Son

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• Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spring, Character, Autumn

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