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Quentin Crisp Quotes

«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.»
«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.»
«The trouble with children is that they are not returnable»
Author: Quentin Crisp (Author) | Keywords: returnable
«The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity»
Author: Quentin Crisp (Author) | Keywords: incompetence
«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.»
«Manners are love in a cool climate.»
Author: Quentin Crisp (Author) | Keywords: climate
«The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.»
«Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.»
Author: Quentin Crisp (Author) | Keywords: unbridled
«Don't do housework: after a few years the dirt doesn't get any worse.»
«My worst has already happened.»

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