Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
QUENTIN CRISPNever sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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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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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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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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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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