“There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.”
"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
"If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style."
- Quentin Crisp
Failure
""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
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy