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People 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…
- Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners.…
- As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which…
- 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…
- 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…
- I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share
- The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.
- People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
- Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on…
- 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…
- 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.
- I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
- I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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