There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
QUENTIN CRISP- Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
QUENTIN CRISPPeople are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
QUENTIN CRISPThe consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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.
QUENTIN CRISPIf 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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
QUENTIN CRISPIf love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
QUENTIN CRISPFor flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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!”
QUENTIN CRISPPeople 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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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?’
QUENTIN CRISPWhen 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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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
QUENTIN CRISPThe gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
QUENTIN CRISPHowever low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
QUENTIN CRISPMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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.
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.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
QUENTIN CRISPBelieve in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
QUENTIN CRISPIt’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
QUENTIN CRISPOne should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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