The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
QUENTIN CRISPIt’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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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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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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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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Vice is its own reward.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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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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