The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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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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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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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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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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