Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
QUENTIN CRISPI 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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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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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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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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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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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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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