Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
QUENTIN CRISPEuphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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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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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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I 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.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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