Quentin Crisp Quotes

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• I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gay, Thinking, Done

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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.

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  Funny, Kids, Years

  Naked Civil Servant (1968) ch. 15

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• Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

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  Regret, Doubt, Want

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

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  Sad, Fashion, Being Yourself

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

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  Inspirational, Levels, Dignity

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

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• Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

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  Believe, Fate, Choices

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• What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

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  Inspirational, Want, Lgbt

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• If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

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  Writing, Realist, Ifs

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

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• Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

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  Fashion, Style, Able

  Speech, October 29, 1980.

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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?'

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  Peace, Atheist, Believe

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

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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.

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  Inspirational, Running, Pigs

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• Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

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  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "The Celluloid Closet". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.

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  Blessing, Past, Opportunity

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• When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

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  Mother, Gay

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

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  Funny, Life, Way

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.18.

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• You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.

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  Personality, Interviews, Ends

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• The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

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  Individuality, Curiosity, Neighbor

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• No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

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  Happiness, Effort, Enormous

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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.

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  Teenage, Parent, Copying

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)

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• To lose is not always failure.

  Quentin Crisp

  Loses

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• I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she deserved. She could have been Queen of England - and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering.

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  Queens, Princess, Heart

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• It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

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  Relationship, Giving, Demand

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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.

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  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.

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  Expanding Universe, Addresses, Sides

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

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  Funny, Success, Sarcastic

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

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