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

This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was. – Quentin Crisp

Category:
Places
Read Quote

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
Other Quotes from
Attachment
category

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

None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. Romans 14:7 – Bible

Category:
Attachment

Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do. – Bhagavad Gita

Category:
Attachment

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone. – Erich Fromm

Category:
Attachment

Random Quotes

No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Consistency

I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasnt really great – people didnt really want to be part of the choir, they didnt want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasnt the cool thing to do. – Lea Michele

Category:
cool

I think Bond the character is distinct: Hes British, he has a certain code that he lives by, hes incorruptible… hes a classical hero, but hes also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and hes a romantic. – Barbara Broccoli

Category:
Romantic

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. – George Washington

Category:
Freedom