Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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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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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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 never saw Portsmouth by day.
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