Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
QUENTIN CRISPI never saw Portsmouth by day.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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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 have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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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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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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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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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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