The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
QUENTIN CRISP
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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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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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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 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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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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