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.
QUENTIN CRISPThough intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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 don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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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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