Quentin Crisp

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

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

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.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.