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12 Quotes for 'Quentin Crisp' in the Database.
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Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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 a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
Topic: Children / Youth
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Topic: Disasters
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
Topic: Goals
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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.
Topic: Inspirational
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Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
Topic: Inspirational
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their
whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method
of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists
solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Topic: Inspirational
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Topic: Inspirational
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Topic: Love
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
Topic: Men and Women
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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.
Topic: Prejudice
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Topic: Relationships
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