You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
QUENTIN CRISPIf love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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Vice is its own reward.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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