If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Crisp’s quip parodies the earnest proverb “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” flipping it into a defense of individuality. Rather than treating failure as a temporary setback on the way to conventional success, the line suggests that repeated failure might reflect a person’s temperament, aesthetic, or chosen way of living—“your style.” The humor lies in turning a moral lesson about perseverance into a wry acceptance of nonconformity. It also critiques social pressure to measure worth by achievement, implying that what looks like failure from the outside may be a deliberate refusal to play by prevailing rules.