In England, nobody’s your friend.
QUENTIN CRISPIt’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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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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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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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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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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