More from Quentin Crisp
The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Vice is its own reward.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp To lose is not always failure.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp
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People who don’t know how to love you are always going to hurt your heart.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta I no longer seek the love I think I deserve but rather the love I’ve always deserved.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole There is no such thing as a good investment.
Manish KhuntetaManish Khunteta Without you, I’m lost.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch I did everything I could to make it work I was casting nets into the ocean and all they were doing was returning back empty.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados We flew to heaven, and we touched the sun.
Jennifer JulietteJennifer Juliette You told me everything would be okay. I wish you had said – you’ll hurt but I’ll hold you.
Ullie KayeUllie Kaye Be brave, be bold, beware that you must believe before becoming.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
SophoclesSophocles Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
Chuck BerryChuck Berry One day you’ll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.
Dolph LundgrenDolph Lundgren On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.
Gabrielle BernsteinGabrielle Bernstein No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
Afeni ShakurAfeni Shakur I admit, I don’t look like the athlete of the day’s supposed to look. My belly’s just a little big, my heinie’s just a little big, but, brother, I am bad, and they know I’m bad.
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