I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
QUENTIN CRISPIf you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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