Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
QUENTIN CRISPHappiness is the only thing I understand.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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