One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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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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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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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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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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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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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