Logo
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

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
Author
Quentin Crisp
Read Quote

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

Category:
Change
Author
Quentin Crisp
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Fathers
category

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – Bill Cosby

Category:
Fathers

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat. – Robert Frost

Category:
Fathers

I love my father as the stars — he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Fathers

Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow. – Reed Markham

Category:
Fathers

Random Quotes

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. Thats what I was committed to doing. – Chris Christie

Category:
Government

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a mans substance with invisible teeth. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Debt / Borrow / Loan

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. – Margery Allingham

Category:
Optimism

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. – Laurence Sterne

Category:
power