Tidy Quotes

“He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.”

“Marathon tidying produces a heap of garbage. At this stage, the one disaster that can wreak more havoc than an earthquake is the entrance of that recycling expert who goes by the alias of "mother.”

“We amass material things for the same reason that we eat - to satisfy a craving. Buying on impulse and eating and drinking to excess are attempts to alleviate stress. From observing my clients, I have noticed that when they discard excess clothing, their tummies tend to slim down, when they discard books and documents, their minds become clearer, when they reduce the number of cosmetics and tidy up the area around the sink and bath, their complexion tends to become clear and their skin smooth. -p226”

“She could strive for perfection only in certain, few things; beyond that, it was important only to be tidy.”

“The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room.”

“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now. Not for the person we were in the past.”

“To dream in doctrines, how tidy!”

“Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection.”

“To tidy up takes time, and she wants all her time for wolfing books...”

“..chaos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell...”