Quotes from Perry Brass

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.

The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.

The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

The god that you dispense with today, will come back as a demon tomorrow.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down-to nothing but a smile.

Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love.

Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

Eat without the TV going on. Learn to appreciate food with only the entertainment of conversation-yours and someone else's.

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age—and all of our fears that it carries—will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction.