There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
QUENTIN CRISPYou must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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To lose is not always failure.
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I never say ‘No’ to 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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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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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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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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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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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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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When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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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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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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