To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
QUENTIN CRISPYou must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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.
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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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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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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Vice is its own reward.
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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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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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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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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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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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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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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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