Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
QUENTIN CRISPOne should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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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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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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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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