The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
QUENTIN CRISPThe worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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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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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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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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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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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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