It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
QUENTIN CRISPThe English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Vice is its own reward.
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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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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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