The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
QUENTIN CRISPI don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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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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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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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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