Quote by Quentin Crisp
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. – Quentin Crisp

Other quotes by Quentin Crisp

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

Category:
Neighbors
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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

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Happiness
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Fathers
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Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. “Do you believe there is a devil?” asked one. “No,” said the other promptly. “It’s like Santa Claus: it’s your father.” – Nebelspalter (Zurich, Switzerland), quoted in The Literary Digest, Vol.106, 1930

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Fathers

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. – Joseph Joubert

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Fathers

Fathers represent another way of looking at life — the possibility of an alternative dialogue. – Louise J. Kaplan, Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978

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Fathers

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! – Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

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Fathers

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