Quentin Crisp Quotes - Page 9

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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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• I've always lived in the same way.

  Quentin Crisp

  Way

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• I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.

  Quentin Crisp

  New York, Men, America

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• The United States are a miracle: the division between two states is sometimes a river or a mountain, and sometimes it's a straight line. But nobody says, "That tree really belongs in South Carolina. I shan't do anything about it now, I'll get it back later." I shall go after I am here to London and after that to Potsdam, where Comrade Stalin, Mr Churchill and Harry Truman divided up Europe; and what we see now is the result of that. The Americans would have accepted it. But Europeans don't accept anything.

  Quentin Crisp

  Europe, Two, Rivers

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers in a rush-hour train which has stopped between stations for three centuries. And they all hate one another. And they're all crushed together waving their national flags, clanking their national chains, jabbering their national language.

  Quentin Crisp

  Country, Hate, Europe

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Statistics, Praise, Natural

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• I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Understood, Know How

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• Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Vices, Green

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• Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.

  Quentin Crisp

  Trying, Faces, Dodge

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• A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gentleman, Sitting, Pieces

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• I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, Tragic, Demeanor

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• In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.

  Quentin Crisp

  Doors, People, Manhattan

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• I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

  Quentin Crisp

  Tragedy, Remember, Tragic

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• I'm too old to make drawings.

  Quentin Crisp

  Drawing

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• I go wherever my fare is paid.

  Quentin Crisp

  Paid

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• Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gun, Games, Principles

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• The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hot, England, Haze

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

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• I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.

  Quentin Crisp

  Pay, Dishes, Behave

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• I became one of the stately homos of England.

  Quentin Crisp

  England, Homosexuality

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 24 (1968) See Hemans 3; Woolf 4

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• Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

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  Personality, Style, Consciousness

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• When I was young, I don't know how, I spent all my time in the presence of married women telling me their troubles. And when I said 'Why did you marry?' they said, 'Oh I married to get away from home.' And when I said, 'And why don't you leave him?' they gave the saddest answer in the world: they said, 'Where would I go?' So they stayed with men they didn't like because they had nowhere to go.

  Quentin Crisp

  Home, Men, Answers

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.

  Quentin Crisp

  Way To Live, Rooms, Easier

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• I've come from a very masculine country to a feminine country. England was very masculine; people went from England to abroad, and they landed from above and they said "These are the gods you will worship, these are the crops you will grow, now go away and do it." Which is a manly attitude. Americans go abroad and they say, "Try not to quarrel so much", which is a feminine attitude.

  Quentin Crisp

  Country, Attitude, People

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• Europeans are quarrelsome.

  Quentin Crisp

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.

  Quentin Crisp

  Cutting, Sea, California

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