Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
QUENTIN CRISPPolitics 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I’ve never not been famous.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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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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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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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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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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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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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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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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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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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