Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
QUENTIN CRISPHowever low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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To lose is not always failure.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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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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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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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