However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
QUENTIN CRISPVice is its own reward.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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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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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.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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