If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
QUENTIN CRISPLook inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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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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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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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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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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