The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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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Well, 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.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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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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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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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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