Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
QUENTIN CRISPExhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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