The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
QUENTIN CRISPNothing 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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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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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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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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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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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