Quentin Crisp Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.

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  People, Had Enough, Mass

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

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

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  Funny, Life, Way

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.18.

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• It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

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  Agony, Done, Way

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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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• 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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  Want, British, Impression

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• It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

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  Art, People, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

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  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

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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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  Happiness, Effort, Enormous

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• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

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  Success, Moving, Character

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• You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

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  Love, Life, Relationship

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

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  Funny, Success, Sarcastic

  "Writer, colorful gay figure Quentin Crisp dead at 90". www.cnn.com. November 21, 1999.

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• You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.

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  Personality, Interviews, Ends

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• When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

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  Mother, Gay

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• However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Men

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• You will survive if you believe in yourself.

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  Believe, Ifs, Believe In Yourself

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• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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  Truth, Communication, Diplomatic Relations

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• When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate; that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am.

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  Men, Differences, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she deserved. She could have been Queen of England - and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering.

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  Queens, Princess, Heart

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• To lose is not always failure.

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  Loses

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• If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

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  Family, Average, Missing

  "Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations". Book by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, 2008.

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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!

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  America, People, England

  1985 In The Guardian, 23 Oct.

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• Men get laid, but women get screwed.

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  Sex, Women, Sassy

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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  Fathers Day, Mother, Dad

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