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?’
QUENTIN CRISPI don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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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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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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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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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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