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Quentin Crisp
English
Writer
Born:
Dec 25
,
1908
Died:
Nov 21
,
1999
First
Me
People
Time
World
You
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.
Quentin Crisp
Time
Live
Universe
Changing
Side
Address
Once
Those
Outcast
Find
Contempt
Without
Metropolis
Expanding
Human
Suburbs
Inhabited
Who
Eventually
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp
First
Worse
Dirt
Housework
Years
Get
Any
After
Four
Need
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
Exhausted
Enough
Relationships
Our
Give
Give And Take
Take
Demands
Untrue
Partnership
Any
Explained
Little
Require
Flop
Graves
Last
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
God
You
Woman
Atheist
People
Believe
Catholics
Audience
Said
Up
Yes
Ireland
Northern
Stood
Northern Ireland
Whom
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Quentin Crisp
Health
Consists
Neighbors
Having
Diseases
Same
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.
Quentin Crisp
People
Think
Other
Ourselves
Reconcile
About
Purpose
Opinion
Glowing
Existence
Very
Hold
Us
Appalling
Things
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
Quentin Crisp
Life
Funny
Me
Funny Thing
Way
Happened
Grave
Thing
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
Quentin Crisp
People
Other
Pleasantly
Minimum
Recommend
Scant
Involvement
Limiting
Lives
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.
Quentin Crisp
Me
Cause
Three
Bicycle
Speeds
Nerve
Give
Give Me
Simply
Force
Revolving
Stops
Being
Order
Which
Then
Planets
Suddenly
Keeps
Imagine
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
Relationship
You
Treat
Simple
Triviality
Never
Disaster
Disasters
Were
Achieving
Formula
Successful
Should
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
Quentin Crisp
Women
Men
Get
Laid
Screwed
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp
Character
Intelligence
Though
Weaknesses
Finding
Powerless
Hand
Modify
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
Enemies
Thought
Must
Signify
Threat
Constitute
Only
Never
Hostility
Over
Over It
Been
Won
Means
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
Time
Problem
Parents
Young
Defying
Solved
Another
Always
How
Same
Same Time
Conform
Rebel
Now
Copying
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp
Everybody
Despise
Know
Forgive