Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
QUENTIN CRISPThe trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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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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