Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
QUENTIN CRISPHowever low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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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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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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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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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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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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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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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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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