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.
QUENTIN CRISPManners are love in a cool climate.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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I’ve never not been famous.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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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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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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