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

Quote by Quentin Crisp

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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 consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in...

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in...

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...

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

If I were asked to describe the difference between the sexes in the gay world,...

If I were asked to describe the difference between the sexes in the gay world,...

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book...

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book...

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and...

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and...

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms...

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms...

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years...

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years...

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years...

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years...

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have...

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have...

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality...

You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality...

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten...

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten...

Disaster can strike anyone at any time. It could be me tonight.

Disaster can strike anyone at any time. It could be me tonight.