Famous quotes by Writers

"Who has not served cannot command"

John Florio, Writer

"A good husband makes a good wife"

John Florio, Writer

"Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born"

John Florio, Writer

"Patience is the best medicine"

John Florio, Writer

"Night is the mother of thoughts"

John Florio, Writer

"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, Writer

"There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years, the dirt doesn't get any worse"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

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

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"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, Writer

"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, Writer

"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, Writer

"Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"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, Writer

"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

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

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Men get laid, but women get screwed"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Manners are love in a cool climate"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness, combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

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

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"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, Writer

"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give, and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

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

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"For an introvert, his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Euphemisms are unpleasant truths, wearing diplomatic cologne"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Abatement in the hostility of one's 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, Writer

"No one should part with their individuality and become that of another"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

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