Study neatness. [ L. Murray ]

Neatness is always commendable. [ A. O. Hall ]

We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly. [ William Shakespeare ]

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood. [ Fontenelle ]

We are charmed by neatness of person; let not thy hair be out of order. [ Ovid ]

Neatness is an inheritance to which the poor can lay claim equally with the rich. [ H. Greenough ]

Cultivate habits of neatness, and let your attire be simple, modest, and becoming. [ Mrs. Willard ]

As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Neatness, and its reverse, among the poor, are almost a certain test of their moral character. [ Dr. Whitaker ]

We must be neat in our person, though not over particular; and let us shun boorish and ungenteel slovenliness. [ Cicero ]

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

Two things should always be aimed at in our apparel - neatness and decency; but we should avoid an effeminate spruceness, as much as a fantastic disorder. [ J. Beaumont ]

Among the minor virtues, cleanliness ought to be conspicuously ranked; and in the common topics of praise we generally arrange some commendation of neatness. [ J. Dennie ]

A young woman should regard that propriety of attire which insures the strictest neatness, and modestly conform to those unobjectionable points which are the freaks of custom. [ C. Butler ]

It is a beautiful self-denial for the affluent to set an example of neatness, plainness, and simplicity. Such an influence is peculiarly salutary in our state of society, where the large class of young females, who earn a subsistance by labor, are so addicted to the love of finery. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

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 will find him the cheapest. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]