In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
QUENTIN CRISPThe 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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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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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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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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