Neatness Quotes - Page 2

• Estoy segura", exclamó Catherine, "de que no pretendía decir nada malo; pero es un libro bonito, y ¿por qué no habría de llamarlo así?". "Muy cierto," dijo Henry, "y éste es un día muy agradable, y estamos dando un paseo muy agradable, y vosotras sois dos jóvenes muy agradables. Es una palabra muy bonita. Sirve para todo. Originalmente tal vez se aplicaba sólo para expresar pulcritud, propiedad, delicadeza o refinamiento; la gente era agradable en su vestir, en sus sentimientos o en su elección. Pero ahora todos los elogios sobre todos los temas están incluidos en esa palabra.

  Jane Austen

  Bonito, Libro, Malo

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• Debo decir que no soy muy gentil y siento que la gentilidad tiene un dominio absoluto: la pulcritud, la maravillosa pulcritud, que es tan evidente en todas partes en Inglaterra es quizás más peligrosa de lo que parece a primera vista.

  Sylvia Plath

  England, Wonderful, Surface

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

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• Sería mortificante para los sentimientos de muchas damas, si se les hiciera comprender lo poco que afecta al corazón de un hombre lo costoso o nuevo de su atuendo.

  Jane Austen

  Corazón, Hombres, Sentimientos

  Jane Austen (2008). "Persuasión. La abadía de Northanger (dos novelas)", p.196, Mondial

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• It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Fall, Falling Apart, Balconies

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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• A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Fashion, Simplicity, Gentleman

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• Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

  Juan Wesley

  Next, Scripture, Sin

  Sermons on Several Occasions Sermon 88 (1788). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes, "Next in this proverb means 'immediately following,' as in serial order." The ODP refers to a passage in Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning (1605), reading, "Cleannesse of bodie was euer esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God."

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• 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

  Men, Excess, Coquetry

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• Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Race, Average

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• [Este tipo de vida de soltero, libre y fácil, está llena de diversión y alegría. Pease y yo nos alojamos juntos, y todo lo que se asemeja al orden y la pulcritud es desterrado de nuestra presencia como una molestia: cartas viejas y botas y zapatos viejos, ropa limpia y ropa sucia, libros y periódicos, cepillos de dientes, cepillos de zapatos y cepillos de ropa, todo amontonado en sillas, sofás, etc., en una polvorienta y "muy admirada confusión". Ahora bien, ¿qué se puede imaginar en la vida privada limpio y ordenado igual a esto?

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Diversión, Libro, Sucio

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

  François Fenelon

  Mind, Virtue, Extremes

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• 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

  Country, Food, People

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.294, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Age, Bottles, Habitat

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

  Agnes Repplier

  Speech, Phrases, Accepted

  Agnes Repplier (1936). "En busca de la risa ...", Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• 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

  Character, Special, Jason

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, p.340, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Fall, Sleep, Views

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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

  Kevin McCloud

  House, Symmetry, Chaotic

  "Grand Designs Kevin McCloud: 'My House Is as Chaotic as Yours'". Interview with Judith Woods, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 27, 2010.

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• 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.

  Mijaíl Bulgákov

  Mean, Masters, Said

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• I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.

  Frances Wright

  Cities, Philadelphia, House

  Frances Wright (1821). “Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820”, p.83

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• The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

  Freya Stark

  Silly, Animal, House

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.121, The Overlook Press

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• Las novelas históricas, en particular, nos permiten revivir el pasado sin la pulcritud de la historia y con toda la complejidad del presente.

  Laila Lalami

  Past, Historical Novels, Complexity

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