Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
QUENTIN CRISPTo love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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To lose is not always failure.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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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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