Cleaning Techniques Quotes

You can't really dust for vomit.

Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.

At 17, I went away to Pau in the south of France for a few months to study domestic science - including cleaning windows with newspaper and water - while living with a Catholic family with 10 children.

I don't cook... I don't know how to clean... there's may be a good chance I'm an alcoholic.

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

But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.

Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house.

My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again.