However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
QUENTIN CRISPPolitics 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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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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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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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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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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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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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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