To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
QUENTIN CRISPYou will survive if you believe in yourself.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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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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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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