However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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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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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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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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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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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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