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.

Charles Dickens
About This Quote

Cleanliness is next to godliness. This quote is one of the most well known quotes in the world! It means that cleanliness is very close to being holy. If you are very clean you are very close to Godliness. Godliness can be used to mean both good and bad.

Source: Great Expectations

Some Similar Quotes
  1. Hate the sin, love the sinner. - Mahatma Gandhi

  2. No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God! - T.d. Jakes

  3. Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to... - Ally Condie

  4. You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not... - James Joyce

  5. There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. - Shannon L. Alder

More Quotes By Charles Dickens
  1. I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

  2. Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

  3. What greater gift than the love of a cat.

  4. Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect...

  5. I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

Related Topics