Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
QUENTIN CRISPTo lose is not always failure.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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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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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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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,
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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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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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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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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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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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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