Quentin Crisp Short Quotes

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A gentleman doesn't pounce... he glides.

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I became one of the stately homos-of England.

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Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

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Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing.

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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbours.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

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Life is the funny thing that happens to you on the way to the grave.

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Never try to keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

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Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

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Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level; it's cheaper.

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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.

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For flavour, Instant Sex will never supersede the stuff you had to peel and cook.

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When stripped, I looked less like "Il David" than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.

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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

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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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I acquiesced in this on the grounds that the most anyone can expect from a holiday is a change of agony.

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There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

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Regretting he wasn't born a woman:
I'd have opened a knitting shop in Carlisle and been a part of life.

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Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.

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Closing down an interview:
I am so sorry. We have to stop there. I have just come to the end of my personality.

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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

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As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone."

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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

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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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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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