Crisps Quotes

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Life, Way

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.18.

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• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'

  Quentin Crisp

  Peace, Atheist, Believe

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1984.

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• Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  Quentin Crisp

  Moving, Character, Self

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Sarcastic, Men

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• I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Involvement, Minimum

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Teenage, Parent, Copying

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)

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• You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are.

  Adam Rex

  Sad, Fashion, Being Yourself

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Family, Average, Missing

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

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• To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  Quentin Crisp

  Forgiving, Despise, Knows

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 9, 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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Want, British, Impression

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• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

  Quentin Crisp

  Expanding Universe, Addresses, Sides

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• Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Levels, Dignity

  Tim Fountain, Quentin Crisp (2001). “Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp Explains it All”, MIT Press

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• There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Kids, Years

  Naked Civil Servant (1968) ch. 15

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Success, Moving, Character

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• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

  Quentin Crisp

  Expanding Universe, Sides, Outcast

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 3, 1968.

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• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Running, Pigs

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• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sad, Fashion, Being Yourself

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Success, Sarcastic

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

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• The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

  Quentin Crisp

  Forgiveness, Hilarious, Thinking

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.

  Alys Fowler

  Summer, Goodbye, Morning

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• I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Ddt, Long, Modern Life

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• So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.

  John Prescott

  Sick, Feelings, Chocolate

  John Prescott (2008). “Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches”

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• Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.

  Hal Borland

  Autumn, Wind, Two

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• My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke - like the end and the beginning of something all at once.

  Lauren Oliver

  Real, Heart, Autumn

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