Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
QUENTIN CRISPWhen asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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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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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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