Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
QUENTIN CRISPThe 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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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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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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The 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.
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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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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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