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.
QUENTIN CRISPTo lose is not always failure.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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 I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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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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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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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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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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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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