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.
QUENTIN CRISPFashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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 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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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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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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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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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.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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