I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
QUENTIN CRISPBelieve in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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Vice is its own reward.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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