If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
QUENTIN CRISPAnd were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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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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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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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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To lose is not always failure.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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