To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
QUENTIN CRISPWomen have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I’ve never not been famous.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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To lose is not always failure.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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