I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
QUENTIN CRISPIn England, nobody’s your friend.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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Mainstream 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:
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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I 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.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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