In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
QUENTIN CRISPThe 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
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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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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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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Vice is its own reward.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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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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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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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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