Quentin Crisp Quotes - Page 8

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• Now you can leave home at any time you like.Your mother comes down and finds a picture of the Eiffel Tower on her plate. And she says, 'Oh! Rosemary's gone to Paris. No wonder the bathroom was so tidy.' And nobody minds. But in my day, to go abroad with all those wicked Frenchmen, what would become of them? So no-one ever went anywhere.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mother, Home, Paris

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

  Quentin Crisp

  Logic, Influence, Charisma

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• What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What matters is that you don't offend people, or hurt their feelings by mistake by saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hurt, Mistake, Knives

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sex, Fate, Sacrifice

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• It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

  Quentin Crisp

  Freedom, Blessing, Simple

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• You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.

  Quentin Crisp

  America, Behave

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?

  Quentin Crisp

  Two, Leaving, Trying

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hurt, Confused, Self

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

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• I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

  Quentin Crisp

  Regret

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.

  Quentin Crisp

  Lucky, Cosmetics, Faces

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.

  Quentin Crisp

  Eye, Hair, Tree

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

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• Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.

  Quentin Crisp

  Expression, Hatred, Tears

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, Tragic, Demeanor

  Source: www.avclub.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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were directed at how to comport yourself in the presence of the ladies.

  Quentin Crisp

  War, Book, World

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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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, England, Persons

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.

  Quentin Crisp

  World, Feminine, Young

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always lived in the same way.

  Quentin Crisp

  Way

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• I'm too old to make drawings.

  Quentin Crisp

  Drawing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• 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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

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  Tragedy, Remember, Tragic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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