I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
QUENTIN CRISPThe worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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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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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Vice is its own reward.
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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