When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
QUENTIN CRISPVice is its own reward.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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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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!”
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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