I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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Vice is its own reward.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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