Vice is its own reward.
QUENTIN CRISPIt is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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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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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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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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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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