To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
QUENTIN CRISPMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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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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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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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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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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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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