You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
QUENTIN CRISPA fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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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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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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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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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 never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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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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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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