If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
QUENTIN CRISPMainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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 never saw Portsmouth by day.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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