Quentin Crisp Quotes - Page 3

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Tomorrow, My Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, Insulting, Religion

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• Manners are love in a cool climate.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Inspirational, Climate

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Marriage, Swans, Want

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• There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

  Quentin Crisp

  Winter, Thinking, Long

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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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• 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.

  Quentin Crisp

  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?"

  Quentin Crisp

  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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Philosophical, Profound

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Sex, Destiny

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Batteries, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Weekend, Promise

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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?

  Quentin Crisp

  Plato, Boys, Names

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Capacity To Love, People, Capacity

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• Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

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

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Party, Rocks

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• Happiness is the only thing I understand.

  Quentin Crisp

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In England, nobody's your friend.

  Quentin Crisp

  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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Wise, Art, Choices

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• The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

  Quentin Crisp

  Air, Grace, Genius

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• I never say 'No' to anything.

  Quentin Crisp

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

  Quentin Crisp

  God, Order, Giving

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• Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

  Quentin Crisp

  Block, Lying, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mean, Enemy, Threat

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