Neat

Famous quotes containing the word neat:

“Why should the generations overlap one another at all? Why cannot we be buried as eggs in neat little cells with ten or twenty thousand pounds each wrapped round us in Bank of England notes, and wake up, as the Sphinx wasp does, to find that its papa and mamma have not only left ample provision at its elbow but have been eaten by sparrows some weeks before we began to live consciously on our own accounts?”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“But his neat cookery! He cut our roots in characters,
And sauced our broths, as Juno had been sick
And he her dieter.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now

Sets neat prints into the snow”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)