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Love Quotes by Quentin Crisp
- Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
- This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
- Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told…
- Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all.…
- To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be…
- The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be…
- 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…
- What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
- The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either…
- One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
- If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
- Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
- The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.
- Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
- I am the last of Britain's stately homos.
- People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
- When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
- What is privacy if not for invading?
- To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
- For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
- You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
- Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
- Manners are love in a cool climate.
- I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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