It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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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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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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 may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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