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.
QUENTIN CRISPWhen I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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