Famous Quotes / Quentin Crisp
53 Quotations by Quentin Crisp
- 21. Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many yea ...
- 22. Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who ...
- 23. Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
- 24. Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.
- 25. Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity ...
- 26. Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you underst ...
- 27. Manners are love in a cool climate.
- 28. My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
- 29. Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
- 30. Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of tw ...
- 31. Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. Ther ...
- 32. Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitt ...
- 33. Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic bui ...
- 34. One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
- 35. Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
- 36. The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of ...
- 37. The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is ...
- 38. The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
- 39. The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if ...
- 40. The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.