However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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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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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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