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Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp

English writer and actor

Lived from: 1908 - 1999

Category: Movie | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 25 december 1908 Died: 21 november 1999

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  • My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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  • Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?
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  • Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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  • The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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  • The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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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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  • The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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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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  • There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
    The Naked Civil Servant (1968) Ch. 15
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  • This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
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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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  • To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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  • To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
    The Naked Civil Servant (1968) Ch. 9
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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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  • When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?''
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  • Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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