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.
QUENTIN CRISPWhat my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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