Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
QUENTIN CRISPIn England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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Vice is its own reward.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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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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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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