What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
QUENTIN CRISPAsk yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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I 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.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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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 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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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