Quentin Crisp quotes - page 5

Vice is its own reward. (Quentin Crisp)
In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor. View quote
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making. View quote
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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 regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. View quote
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If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents one must undertake to bring them up. View quote
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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 when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said ''If you truly love me, kill the bartender.'' View quote
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen. View quote
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Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery Phooey You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say ''Phooey,'' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed. View quote
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