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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mean, Hands, Ifs

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Running, Pigs

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Blessing, Past, Opportunity

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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."

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, Should, Shops

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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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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• Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

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  Love, Sex, Destiny

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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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• In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

  Quentin Crisp

  America, People, England

  1985 In The Guardian, 23 Oct.

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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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• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

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  Teenage, Parent, Copying

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)

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• It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

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  Relationship, Giving, Demand

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Want, British, Impression

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Life, Way

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.18.

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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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  Relationship, Marriage, Successful

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