If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp Quotations
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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.
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.
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.
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.