Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
QUENTIN CRISPI 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!
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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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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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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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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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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