Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
QUENTIN CRISPI don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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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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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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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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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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