Quote by Quentin Crisp
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. – Quentin Crisp

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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. – Quentin Crisp

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The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp

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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. – Quentin Crisp

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. – Jane Austen

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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. – Pietro Aretino

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Withdraw yourself from your neighbors house; lest he be tired of you, and hate you. – Bible

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen

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