Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
QUENTIN CRISPYou must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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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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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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