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13535 quotesAn autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Autobiography
Quentin Crisp
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
Police
Quentin Crisp
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
Flirting
Quentin Crisp
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
Life and Living
Quentin Crisp
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Parents and Parenting
Quentin Crisp
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Sex
Quentin Crisp
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Law and Lawyers
Quentin Crisp
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This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
Extremes and Extremists
Quentin Crisp
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Desire
Quentin Crisp
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The Moon is opposing Jupiter. Don't get involved, it's their problem.
Problems
Jim Critchfield
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Venus is now astrologically square with Pluto. That means there isn't a hip planet left.
Planets
Jim Critchfield
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Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.
Prudence
Critias
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Be always sure your are right, then go ahead.
Right and Rightness
Davy Crockett
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In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Fathers and Sons
Croesus
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Mistakes
Oliver Cromwell
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Make the iron hot by striking it.
Opportunity
Oliver Cromwell
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No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.
Getting Ahead
Oliver Cromwell
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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
Censorship
David Cronenberg
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.
Truth
Walter Cronkite
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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Leaders and Leadership
James Crook
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The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.
Presentation
Philip Crosby
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What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Generations
Anthony Crosland
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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Quotations
Amanda Cross
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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
Inaction
Trammell Crow
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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.
Success
Merle Crowell
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun