Manners are love in a cool climate.
QUENTIN CRISPI’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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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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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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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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To lose is not always failure.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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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’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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