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?
QUENTIN CRISPThe war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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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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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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Assoon 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.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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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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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Vice is its own reward.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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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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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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