Quentin Crisp quotes - page 4

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. (Quentin Crisp)
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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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.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. (Quentin Crisp)
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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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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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way. (Quentin Crisp)
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to underta.
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