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.
QUENTIN CRISPI’ve never not been famous.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Vice is its own reward.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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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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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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