Logo
Quote by Quentin Crisp
I recommend limiting ones involvement in other peoples lives to a

I recommend limiting ones involvement in other peoples lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises. – Quentin Crisp

Other quotes by Quentin Crisp

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. – Quentin Crisp

Category:
Intelligence
Author
Quentin Crisp
Read Quote

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you dont believe? – Quentin Crisp

Category:
God
Author
Quentin Crisp
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Attachment
category

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the minds eye only, fade out in sand. – Nadine Gordimer

Category:
Attachment

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. – Lao-Tzu

Category:
Attachment

America Im putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. – Allen Ginsberg

Category:
Attachment

Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. – Thomas Merton

Category:
Attachment

Random Quotes

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer. – Marcy Kaptur

Category:
Food

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Category:
Ambition

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. – Santayana, Essays

Category:
Philosophical

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, lets say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I dont pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesnt go with my personality. – Victoria de los Angeles

Category:
communication