In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
QUENTIN CRISPNeither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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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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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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