English - Writer | December 25, 1908 - November 21, 1999
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp
CologneWearingTruthsDiplomatic
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
WomenMenScrewedGetLaid
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
PeopleInvolvementRecommendMinimum
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
LiveTimeUniverseFindHumanSide
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
LifeFunnyMeWayGraveHappened
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
FashionYouKnowWhoAdopt
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
YouSexWillNeverFlavorCook
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.
MeBicycleThreeForceGive MeGive
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
FirstNeedDirtYearsGetFour
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
LoveLove IsFoundationEnoughMust
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
MissingAutobiographyLastObituary
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.
RelationshipSimpleTreatYouNever
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