I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
QUENTIN CRISPA fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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