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.
QUENTIN CRISPFlowers are words even a baby can understand.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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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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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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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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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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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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