Quentin Crisp Quotes

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Kids, Years

  Naked Civil Servant (1968) ch. 15

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gay, Thinking, Done

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• Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

  Quentin Crisp

  Regret, Doubt, Want

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• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sad, Fashion, Being Yourself

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Levels, Dignity

  Tim Fountain, Quentin Crisp (2001). “Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp Explains it All”, MIT Press

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• Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

  Quentin Crisp

  Believe, Fate, Choices

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Want, Lgbt

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• If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

  Quentin Crisp

  Writing, Realist, Ifs

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Fashion, Style, Able

  Speech, October 29, 1980.

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• The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

  Quentin Crisp

  Blessing, Atheism, Looks

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• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'

  Quentin Crisp

  Peace, Atheist, Believe

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1984.

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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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  Inspirational, Running, Pigs

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• Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  Quentin Crisp

  Moving, Character, Self

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• Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "The Celluloid Closet". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

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  People, Promise, Passionate

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• Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

  Quentin Crisp

  Real, Emotional, Self

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• To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.

  Quentin Crisp

  Blessing, Past, Opportunity

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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?

  Quentin Crisp

  Blame, Praise, Asks

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• Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

  Quentin Crisp

  Advice, Want, Get Involved

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• The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who "goes with" other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.

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  Real, Men, Winning

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• For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Funny, Sex

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Forgiveness, Hilarious, Thinking

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• To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  Quentin Crisp

  Forgiving, Despise, Knows

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 9, 1968.

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• The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

  Quentin Crisp

  Individuality, Curiosity, Neighbor

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Expanding Universe, Addresses, Sides

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