Quotes by Quentin Crisp

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have...

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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman...

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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed...

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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years...

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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes...

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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as...

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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

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You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality...

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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

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

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