A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
QUENTIN CRISPA fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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 British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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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 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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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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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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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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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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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 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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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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