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!
QUENTIN CRISPOf 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?
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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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 never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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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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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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