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.
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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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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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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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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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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