Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
QUENTIN CRISPIf at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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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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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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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 never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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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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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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To lose is not always failure.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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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 don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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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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