Quentin Crisp
3 months ago
“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style”
“Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities, but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”
“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”
“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.”
“The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.”
“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.”
