Quotes by
Quentin Crisp |
1908-1999 , British writer
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Quotations
| • | In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendly and the system is brutal! |
| • | To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. |
| • | When asked, “Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?”, I reply, “Never tell your mother anything.” |
| • | The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it. |
| • | You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality. |
| • | It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, “Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.” By then, pigs will be your style. |
| • | Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. |
| • | Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you. |
| • | If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist. |
| • | There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost? |
| • | The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible. |
| • | 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. |
| • | The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy. |
| • | The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face. |
