You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
QUENTIN CRISPYou can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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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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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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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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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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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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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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