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.

Quote by Quentin Crisp

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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...

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I...

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I...

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...

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 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...

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer...

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer...

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.

I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.

If you are bent on revenge, dig two graves.

If you are bent on revenge, dig two graves.