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, "How to Become a Virgin"
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at
which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
-- Quentin Crisp
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling
the walk before it stops snowing.
-- Phyllis Diller
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years
the dirt doesn't get any worse.
-- Quentin Crisp
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, "How to Become a Virgin"
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need
the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the
world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the
long winter evenings.
-- Quentin Crisp
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
-- Quentin Crisp
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling
the walk before it stops snowing.
-- Phyllis Diller
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years
the dirt doesn't get any worse.
-- Quentin Crisp
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need
the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the
world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the
long winter evenings.
-- Quentin Crisp
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
-- Quentin Crisp
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at
which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
-- Quentin Crisp