Occupation: Writer Birth: December 25, 1908 Death: November 21, 1999
I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely..
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change..
As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know..
Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whet….
When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give..
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to….
When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with E….
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan..
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….
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend..
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how m….
Did you know that Allah promises you a seat in Paradise if you kill a Christian?.
The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden bec….
What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What matters is that you d….
As soon as a person takes a part as a homosexual, the press says, "What do your wife and children think of this?" And the actor never says, "Well, la….
Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?.
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there..
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress..
Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers supe….
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequen….
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that ….