Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
QUENTIN CRISPVice is its own reward.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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To lose is not always failure.
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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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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,
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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