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Quentin Crisp quotes

English Writer December 25, 1908 – November 21, 1999

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Lord Snow says that every man may be permitted his own clichs. But this is not enough. He must invent his own clichs and then persist in them until, if other people use them, their source is instantly recognizable. Thus plagiarism shall be turned into homage. Quentin Crisp
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. Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp quote: "Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors."
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. Quentin Crisp
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. Quentin Crisp
Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as building materials selected elements from his own character. Quentin Crisp
I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that. Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp quote: "The trouble with children is that they're not returnable."
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable. Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp quote: "Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp quote: "Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears."
Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears. Quentin Crisp
What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others. Quentin Crisp
Without knowing it, I was acquiring that haughty bearing which is characteristic of so many eccentrics. What other expression would you expect to find on the face of anyone who knows that if he turns his head too quickly, he will see on the faces of others glares of stark terror or grimaces of hatred? Aloofness is the posture of self-defense. Quentin Crisp
The very purpose of existence it to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think of us. Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp quote: "Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a..."
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp quote: "Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which..."
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost? Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp quote: "Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of..."
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. Quentin Crisp

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