You will survive if you believe in yourself.
QUENTIN CRISPManners are love in a cool climate.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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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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,
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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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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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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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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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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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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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