Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
QUENTIN CRISPAs 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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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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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Nothing 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.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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