The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
QUENTIN CRISPMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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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?’
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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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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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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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