Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
QUENTIN CRISPThe trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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The 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.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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 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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Vice is its own reward.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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