clean quotes

Do not ask me for charity now: Go away until your bones are clean.

- (Karen) Fleur Adcock
  Selected Poems,'Advice to a Discarded Lover'.

   First time he kissed me, but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write, And ever since it grew more clean and white†

- Elizabeth ne  e Barrett Browning
  Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 38.

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

-Wilson
  Inside Mr Enderby, pt.2, ch.1.

I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blithely handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear.

- Douglas Coupland
  Claire speaking of her parents. Generation X,'EatYour Parents'.

An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.

- Marjory Fleming
  'Journal 3' in F Sidgwick (ed)  The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).

What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

- C(harles) B(urgess) Fry
  The Lady's Not for Burning, act1.

When we began this fight, we had clean handsare they clean now? What's gentility worth if it can't stand fire?

-John Galsworthy
  The Skin Game, act 3.

The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.

- Ivor Gurney
  'The Songs I Had'.

Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well I did behave.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
 A Shropshire Lad, no.18.

It's just music.It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes.

- Charlie known as  'Bird' Parker
  On bebop. Quoted in Gary Giddins Celebrating Bird (1987), ch.1.

Wondrously clean, but as evidently an actor as Garrick.

- Horace, 4th Earl of Orford Walpole
  Of the Methodist preacherJohnWesley. Letter to John Chute,10 Oct. InWilliam Hadley (ed) The Letters of Horace Walpole (1926).