"Messiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... furtively wiping them. It is a tantalising feast, and the American smiles serenely as he smokes in his corner and refuses to have anything to do with it. The only thing we do get out of it are some really good green figs, which cannot, however, be eaten without shameless messiness, as they are so ...
— Round the Wonderful World • G. E. Mitton
... but a "fad," intended to do what it never does—viz, keep your fingers from sticking, and "your tongue from evil speaking" about the "messiness" ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne
... all the parrots and peacocks and paradise and blue birds and every lovely color imaginable, while the uniform black of the guests, decorated with the pure white of their crests which stand out in such a group, formed the perfect background, free from all the messiness which is so apparent in a diversified gathering of all sorts of color and shape and materials in our land. At tea, which was very elaborate and taken sitting at the tables, the family of the two filled one table, a long one at the end of the room. The bride ...
— Letters from China and Japan • John Dewey |
