However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
QUENTIN CRISPPeople are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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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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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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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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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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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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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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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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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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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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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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