I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
QUENTIN CRISPI’ve never not been famous.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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