"You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."
- Quentin Crisp
Balance
"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."
- Quentin Crisp
Belief in Self
""Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper.""
- Quentin Crisp
Contentment
"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it."
- Quentin Crisp
Family
"There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse."
- Quentin Crisp
Philosophy
"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."
Failure
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Failure
"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."
- Arianna Huffington
Failure
"Trying is the first step toward failure."
- Homer Simpson
Failure
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
- Truman Capote
Failure