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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
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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement. -- Babe Paley
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. -- Francois Fenelon
Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by age. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat. -- Maggie Stiefvater
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
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute. -- Agnes Repplier
Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room. -- William J. Harris
... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order. -- Julia McNair Wright
As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals. -- Josh Billings
We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art. -- Eli Siegel
I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's. -- Kevin McCloud
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas. -- William Blake
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind. -- Francois Fenelon
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. -- Robert Adam
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
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
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
This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought. -- Roger Ebert
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
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
We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order. [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.] -- Ovid
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present. -- Laila Lalami
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. -- Clive James
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. -- Mikhail Bulgakov

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