Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
QUENTIN CRISPNever keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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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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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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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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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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