To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
QUENTIN CRISPQuentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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 don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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