Quentin Crisp Quotes - Page 3

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• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  Quentin Crisp

  Truth, Communication, Diplomatic Relations

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• Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

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  Humor, Getting What You Want, Way

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• The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

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  Gay, Disco Music, Century

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• Men get laid, but women get screwed.

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  Sex, Women, Sassy

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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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• Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

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  Marriage, Swans, Want

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• To lose is not always failure.

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  Loses

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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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• The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

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  Thinking, Insulting, Religion

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• I never spend my time doing anything I'll have to do again tomorrow.

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  Tomorrow, My Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Manners are love in a cool climate.

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  Love, Inspirational, Climate

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• You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

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  Inspirational, Numbers, Names

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• The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, "Would you like to make an appointment?"

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  Bullying, Gay, Phones

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• The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.

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  Love, Philosophical, Profound

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• One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

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  Love, Weekend, Promise

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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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  Noise, Information, Minimum

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 27, 1968.

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• If you don't stay in some days, you can't recharge your batteries.

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  Batteries, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas. He knew them only 'in Braille' - the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial - after a life like that?

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  Plato, Boys, Names

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• The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.

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  Capacity To Love, People, Capacity

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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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  Love, Party, Rocks

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• What is privacy if not for invading?

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  Privacy, Invading, Ifs

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• Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Biography, Comedy, Drama, www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

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  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• In England, nobody's your friend.

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  England

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

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  Wise, Art, Choices

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