Top 35 Tidy Quotes

My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy any place.

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Our life may look glamorous, but we scream at the kids, and I have to tell Jamie to tidy up if we have guests coming over.

I can’t cook. I don’t have the right brain for it, somehow. I can’t walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.

I’m very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don’t have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

I’m quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don’t mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.

My character in ‘Fresh Meat’ is quite prim and tidy, and then I basically had no make-up for the whole shoot of ‘Kidnap and Ransom’ – apart from a bit of Vaseline to make me look even sweatier!

I’m very much a home bird. I sometimes think I should have been a domestic. I like sweeping up, getting everything tidy. I’m obsessive compulsive. I don’t mind admitting it.

I’m an impulse buyer. I’d step inside a shop and buy a nice dress, just like that. Only then do I realize it cost a tidy sum. And when I enter a jewelry store, wow!

I like to see a tidy shop, and I want to see my investments well managed.

When you’re juggling children, a marriage and a couple of jobs, something has to give – and, for me, it’s living in a perfectly tidy home.

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

The way I meditate is by being organised. I can get real Zen if I go home and tidy the front room.

I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right.

I have a neat and tidy bed when I reach home but a cluttered one by the time I leave.

I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it’s in places where it makes no sense at all.

I’m afraid I am tidy, and I have to be because the office is open plan and my glass office door is literally always open.

Threads of Rosenquist and Warhol are all through my work. But I’m messier – and wetter. It’s the female perspective. I’m not as tidy, and they were both very tidy.

Don’t you think it’s something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare’s day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something – not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn’t a rule about this. But there’s a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

People don’t have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

You don’t have to live on a farm to have chickens; in some places, you just need a little bit of green space and a tidy chicken coop. To me, they’re nearly ideal pets. They feed us more often than we feed them! We have 2 chickens, Goldie and Paprika, and they each produce 1 egg a day, sometimes more.

After every war someone has to tidy up.

In the real world, answers may not be clear cut. There will be messy choices, and you’re not going to be able to construct a policy response in a neat and tidy way. Being able to listen to other people, even as you stay true to your principles, that’s how you actually succeed.

I’m known as tidy, I like to keep my stuff in order.

I’m a neat freak. I find I work best when I feel organised and together, and as I work from home, that means my house is always so tidy!

Living with only the bare essentials has not only provided superficial benefits such as the pleasure of a tidy room or the simple ease of cleaning, it has also led to a more fundamental shift. It’s given me a chance to think about what it really means to be happy.

I recommend tidying by category, not by place. For example, instead of deciding that today you’ll tidy a particular room, set goals such as ‘clothes today, books tomorrow.’

I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.

I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing – my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.

There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you’re writing mysteries – oh, no, you can’t have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction – particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.