Happiness is the only thing I understand.
QUENTIN CRISPIf 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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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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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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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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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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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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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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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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