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.
QUENTIN CRISPTo my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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