cleanliness Quotes

“Olana paused, and expression of disgust crawling over her face. ‘What a stench! Do you people live with goats?‘”

″‘Well, dear me, I never thought we would have a penguin for a pet,’ said Mrs. Popper. ‘Still, he behaves pretty well, on the whole, and he is so nice and clean that perhaps he will be a good example to you and the children.‘”

″‘I look quite like a gentleman!’ ‘Yes, indeed,’ answered Geppetto, ‘for bear in mind that it is not fine clothes that make the gentleman, but rather clean clothes.‘”

“I am so glad dear Susie- that our hearts are always clean, and always neat and lovely, so not to be ashamed.”

″‘Well, you there, looking so clean...’ said Charlemagne, who the longer the war lasted had less respect for cleanliness among his paladins.”

“Cleanliness: mentions smoking and drinking. Mentions St. Nicholas and a man dresses up pretending to be him for a couple of children.”

Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

“It’s in the houses of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness,”