In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
QUENTIN CRISPThe 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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When 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.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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Vice is its own reward.
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