Author: Quentin Crisp

Quotes

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

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

- Quentin Crisp

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

- Quentin Crisp

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

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

- 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.

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

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

- Quentin Crisp

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

- Quentin Crisp

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

- Quentin Crisp

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

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

- Quentin Crisp

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