You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
QUENTIN CRISPIn an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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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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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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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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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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