If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
QUENTIN CRISPIf 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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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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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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