Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
QUENTIN CRISPNever sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Vice is its own reward.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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