Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of…

Quote by Quentin Crisp

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

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

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

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

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

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who...

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who...

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.

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 don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are...

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are...

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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...

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable

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...

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

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

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the...

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the...

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...

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...

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey...

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey...