The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
QUENTIN CRISPOne should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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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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