You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
QUENTIN CRISPHealth consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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To lose is not always failure.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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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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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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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 have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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