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Quentin Crisp Quotes
«Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Euphemisms
| Keywords:
cologne, diplomatic, euphemism, euphemisms, unpleasant
«The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Sexes
| Keywords:
regularly, sexes, sides, sleep with, The War
«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?»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| Keywords:
atheist, audience, Catholics, Ireland, Northern, Northern Ireland, People of, Protestants, stood, The God
«If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
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considered, describe, realist, realists, romantic, satirist, Satirists, The Realist
«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.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Existence,
Goals,
Opinions,
People
| Keywords:
About us, appall, appalled, appalling, appalls, glowing, reconcile, reconciles, reconciling
«The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it»
«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.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
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consuming, deliberately, describe, immature, searching, self-sufficiency, solely, some other, sufficiency, this method
«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?»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Lies
| Keywords:
altruistically, basic, block, blocking, block out, building, building block, but then, good manners, manners, mildly, moralist, mutual, of course, shocking