Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
QUENTIN CRISPEuphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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To lose is not always failure.
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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 key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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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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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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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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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 have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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