Quotes by Quentin Crisp

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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Manners are love in a cool climate.

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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for...

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

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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I...

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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the...

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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue....

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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system...

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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once...

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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps...

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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

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