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Danh ngôn của Quentin Crisp (Sứ mệnh: 3)

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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.
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Manners are love in a cool climate.
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.