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.
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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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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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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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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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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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