Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
QUENTIN CRISPThe curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I’ve never not been famous.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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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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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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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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