Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
QUENTIN CRISPMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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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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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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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’ve never not been famous.
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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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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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