I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
QUENTIN CRISPFor flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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