A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
QUENTIN CRISPI never saw Portsmouth by day.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Flowers are words even a baby can 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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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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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