Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Quote by Quentin Crisp

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep...

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep...

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the...

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the...

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once...

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once...

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves...

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves...

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes...

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes...

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer...

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer...

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the...

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the...

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system...

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system...

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed...

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed...

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.