Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
QUENTIN CRISPThe happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Vice is its own reward.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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To lose is not always failure.
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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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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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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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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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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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He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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