Vera Lynn Quotes

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.

There is no one to sweep a common hall.

I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.

I go down to the gym unwashed, like something dragged in from behind a truck.

I don't care about style, but I am a total clean freak, so a messy home is a deal breaker. I had one girlfriend who never wanted to go back to her place. When we finally did, it turned out that she was sleeping on her couch because her bedroom was so messy. That is a prime example of someone I don't want to be around.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

I hate a man who looks dirty.

I'm the biggest slob in the world. My apartment is a mess.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

Alarm in hard times makes one live; indulgence in comfort makes one die.

The Army, as usual, are without Pay; and a great part of the Soldiery without Shirts; and tho' the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

Hygiene is two thirds of health.

I have a bath every month whether I need it or not.

I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service.

I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

I think hygiene is so important.

I once used a fork to comb my hair because there was a time when I didn't own a hairbrush.

I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.