People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
QUENTIN CRISPIt may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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