I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
QUENTIN CRISPI had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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