You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
QUENTIN CRISPNever sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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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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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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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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