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.
QUENTIN CRISPFashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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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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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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?’
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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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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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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