If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
QUENTIN CRISPAssoon 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The 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.
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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 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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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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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!
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