Quote by Quentin Crisp
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. – Quentin Crisp

Other quotes by Quentin Crisp

A gentleman doesnt pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. – Quentin Crisp

Category:
Seduction
Read Quote

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

Category:
respect
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

I dont think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing. – Dan Savage

Category:
Happiness

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Happiness

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. – James Allen

Category:
Happiness

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. – Lydia M. Child

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. – Author unknown

Category:
Quotations

As I approach my 88th birthday, its become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, arent quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing. – Mike Wallace

Category:
Birthday

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. – Charles Darwin

Category:
Knowledge

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. – Anon.

Category:
Conversation