Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
QUENTIN CRISPI like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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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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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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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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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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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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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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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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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