Manners are love in a cool climate.
QUENTIN CRISPThe 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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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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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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