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.
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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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To lose is not always failure.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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