Quentin Crisp Quotes - Page 7

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• Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody.

  Quentin Crisp

  Expression, Television, May

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hero, Dark, Vienna

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Order, Ideas, Giving

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• I never really found out what love was.

  Quentin Crisp

  Found

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• God is so angry. All that power, and so mean with it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mean, Angry

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, Speak English, Speak

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.4.

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• Los Angeles is just New York lying down.

  Quentin Crisp

  New York, Lying, Los Angeles

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• Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

  Quentin Crisp

  Garden, Government, Anarchy

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• What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Men, Mad

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• While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Sex, Agony

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• I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Rooms, Known

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• America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

  Quentin Crisp

  Believe, America, Don't Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Beaten, Cursed

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

  Quentin Crisp

  Men, Practice, California

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• I never saw Portsmouth by day.

  Quentin Crisp

  Saws, Portsmouth

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

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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

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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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

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• What is privacy if not for invading?

  Quentin Crisp

  Privacy, Invading, Ifs

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• Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

  Quentin Crisp

  Faces, Becoming, Homosexuality

  "How to Become a Virgin". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 6, 1981.

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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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• 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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