Quentin Crisp Quotes - Page 8

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• I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.

  Quentin Crisp

  Availability, America, Giving

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• One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed."

  Quentin Crisp

  Country, Travel, America

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• I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.

  Quentin Crisp

  Beautiful, Rain, Sky

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• I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'

  Quentin Crisp

  Two, Degrees, Made

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• I am the last of Britain's stately homos.

  Quentin Crisp

  Lasts, Britain

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• This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hilarious, Extremes

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.3.

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• Now you can leave home at any time you like.Your mother comes down and finds a picture of the Eiffel Tower on her plate. And she says, 'Oh! Rosemary's gone to Paris. No wonder the bathroom was so tidy.' And nobody minds. But in my day, to go abroad with all those wicked Frenchmen, what would become of them? So no-one ever went anywhere.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mother, Home, Paris

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• Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

  Quentin Crisp

  Logic, Influence, Charisma

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• What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What matters is that you don't offend people, or hurt their feelings by mistake by saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hurt, Mistake, Knives

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• In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sex, Fate, Sacrifice

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• You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.

  Quentin Crisp

  America, Behave

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• If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.

  Quentin Crisp

  Parent, Precaution, Ifs

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.5.

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• In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?

  Quentin Crisp

  Two, Leaving, Trying

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• Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hurt, Confused, Self

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

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• I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

  Quentin Crisp

  Regret

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.

  Quentin Crisp

  Lucky, Cosmetics, Faces

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• The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.

  Quentin Crisp

  Eye, Hair, Tree

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 13, 1968.

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• I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sex, Mistake, Thinking

  Foreword to "Conversations with My Elders" by Boze Hadleigh, 1986.

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• Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.

  Quentin Crisp

  Expression, Hatred, Tears

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• As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone."

  Quentin Crisp

  Bangs, Bombs, Atomic Bomb

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 13, 1968.

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• God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.

  Quentin Crisp

  Age, Ambassadors, Territory

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 16, 1968.

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• You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish.

  Quentin Crisp

  Astrology, Peculiar, Venus

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• The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.

  Quentin Crisp

  World, Feminine, Young

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• What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sex, Personality, Use

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• Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.

  Quentin Crisp

  Makeup, People, Skins

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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