In England, nobody’s your friend.
QUENTIN CRISPI take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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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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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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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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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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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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In 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.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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