An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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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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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.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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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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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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