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.
QUENTIN CRISPWell, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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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 love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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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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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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 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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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