The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
QUENTIN CRISPIf love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Vice is its own reward.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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