In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
QUENTIN CRISPTo my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Vice is its own reward.
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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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