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,
QUENTIN CRISPNever sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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