Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp


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- Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?

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- Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.

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- Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Quentin Crisp -
- Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

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

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- Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

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- The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

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

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- Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

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- The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

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- For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

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- The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

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- One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

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- The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

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- Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

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- Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.