Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
QUENTIN CRISPNo effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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Vice is its own reward.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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