When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
QUENTIN CRISPThe young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Vice is its own reward.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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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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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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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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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To lose is not always failure.
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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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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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