Quentin Crisp Quotes - Page 5

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• Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

  Quentin Crisp

  Journey, Laughing, Accounts

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• The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr's crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.

  Quentin Crisp

  Lying, Complaining, Crowns

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 15, 1968.

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• Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.

  Quentin Crisp

  Children, Father, Order

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 26, 1968.

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• An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Missing, Lasts

  Naked Civil Servant (1968) ch. 29

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• The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Thinking, Style

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• I've never not been famous.

  Quentin Crisp

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mistake, People, Great Mistakes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

  Quentin Crisp

  Drug, Exhibitionism, Novices

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

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• I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?

  Quentin Crisp

  Art, Book, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.

  Quentin Crisp

  America, Way, Accepting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sex, War, Sleep

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• Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, People, Secret

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• For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

  Quentin Crisp

  Change, Art, Introvert

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• Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, "I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him."

  Quentin Crisp

  Teacher, Ballet, Doe

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 27, 1968.

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• I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

  Quentin Crisp

  Men, Stereotype

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

  Quentin Crisp

  Done, World, Ignoble

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• As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

  Quentin Crisp

  Marriage, Husband, People

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• The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

  Quentin Crisp

  Morning, Keys, Faces

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• Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

  Quentin Crisp

  Tragedy, Desire

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• If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

  Quentin Crisp

  Talent, Ifs

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

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• People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Homosexual

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• Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

  Quentin Crisp

  Confused, Thinking, Mind

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• Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  Quentin Crisp

  Rome, Style, May

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• Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

  Quentin Crisp

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

  Quentin Crisp

  Cities, Trouble, Terrible

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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