Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
QUENTIN CRISPIf I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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To lose is not always failure.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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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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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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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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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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