Quentin Crisp Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

• The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

  Quentin Crisp

  Individuality, Curiosity, Neighbor

• If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.

  Quentin Crisp

  Men, Garden, Soul

• Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

  Quentin Crisp

  Health, Ironic, Disease

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 21, 1968.

• 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 much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Mother, Jobs

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.1.

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