I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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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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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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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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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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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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 I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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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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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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