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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/1765/">Quotes by <em>Crisp, Quentin</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Quentin Crisp (December 25, 1908 November 21, 1999), was a writer, artist's model, actor and raconteur known for his memorable and insightful witticisms. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after the publication of his memoir The Naked Civil Servant brought to the attention of the general public his defiant exhibitionism and longstanding refusal to conceal his homosexuality. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making."

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"Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin."

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"This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there."

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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."

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"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"

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"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 times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises."

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"To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."

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"The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress."

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"Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?"

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

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