Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
QUENTIN CRISPIs not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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