Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
QUENTIN CRISPI 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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 don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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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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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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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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