Quentin Crisp Quotes

• 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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  Topics in God

  Tags in Atheism

• Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

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  Tags in Drag

• Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

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  Topics in Family, Motivational, Opportunity

  Tags in Maximum, Living Together

• It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.

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  Tags in Farming, Pigs

• Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

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  Topics in Funny, Life

• It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

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  Tags in Boredom, Prejudice, Enlightenment

• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

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  Tags in Outcasts

• I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

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  Tags in Involvement

• For flavor, instant s*x will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

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  Tags in Cook, Peel, Flavor

• Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Decency, Respectability

• An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

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  Tags in Obituaries, Autobiography

• 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 to constitute a threat.

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  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Threat, Hostility

Quentin Crisp (52)

Birth:	25th December, 1908
Death:	21st November, 1999
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress, Artist, Writer, Model

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