When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
QUENTIN CRISPFashion 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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