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 CRISPLove 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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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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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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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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