“Men get laid, but women get screwed.”
— Quentin Crisp
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Life was a funny thing that happened
“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”
— Quentin Crisp
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
“Manners are love in a cool climate.”
— Quentin Crisp
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My mother protected me from the world
“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
— Quentin Crisp
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Category: parenting
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship
“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
Author: Quentin Crisp
Category: relationship
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character,
“Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.”
— Quentin Crisp
Author: Quentin Crisp
Category: intelligence
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It is not the simple statement of
“It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.”
— Quentin Crisp
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Category: freedom
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The British do not expect happiness. I
“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
Author: Quentin Crisp
Category: happiness
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The consuming desire of most human beings
“The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.”
— Quentin Crisp
Author: Quentin Crisp
Category: happiness
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The consuming desire of most human beings
“The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.”
— Quentin Crisp
Author: Quentin Crisp
Category: life
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