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One Quotes by Quentin Crisp
- I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate…
- A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to…
- 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 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.
- Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you…
- The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.
- The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you…
- Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased…
- I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
- Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
- The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their…
- I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
- If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid…
- The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
- One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the…
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