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

Other quotes by Quentin Crisp

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

Category:
Teenagers
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
Neighbors
category

If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. James 2:8 – Bible

Category:
Neighbors

Love thy neighbor — but dont pull down your hedge. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Neighbors

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

Category:
Neighbors

A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Category:
Neighbors

Random Quotes

When anything goes, its women who lose. – Camille Paglia

Category:
Women

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. – A. E. Housman

Category:
Experience

If you go, go in Peace it makes the flowers sweeter along the path. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

Category:
Peace

Ive had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event. – Paula Radcliffe

Category:
Success