If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
QUENTIN CRISPMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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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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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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