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 CRISPWhile I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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