Jonathan Scott Quotes

Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

Men and women have different ideas of what constitutes tidiness. I tend to think it's about things being clean, but my mum and girlfriend are more about how things look.

Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.

I think that's one of the biggest things people don't understand: a clean house will sell faster.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to keep things clean. It's just the neatness I struggle with.

I just cannot stand an unmade bed.

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.

I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

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.

Niggards are oftentimes neat.

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing your homework or studying for a test, you have to have a clean room.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

A new broome sweepeth cleane.

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.

Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy.

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.