Men get laid, but women get screwed.
QUENTIN CRISPManners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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