Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
QUENTIN CRISP
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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