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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. - Quentin Crisp

Abatement in the hostility of ones enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. - Quentin Crisp

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesnt get any worse. - Quentin Crisp

Men get laid, but women get screwed. - Quentin Crisp

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. - Quentin Crisp

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. - Quentin Crisp

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. - Quentin Crisp

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. - Quentin Crisp

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. - Quentin Crisp

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. - Quentin Crisp

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you cant think what to do with the long winter evenings. - Quentin Crisp

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. - Quentin Crisp

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. - Quentin Crisp

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. - Quentin Crisp

Health consists of having the same diseases as ones neighbors. - Quentin Crisp

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. - Quentin Crisp

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. - Quentin Crisp

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