Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
QUENTIN CRISPI recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I’ve never not been famous.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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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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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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