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Quotations of selected author

Quentin Crisp

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

source: "The Naked Civil Servant"

categories: Forgiveness

2. "There are three reasons for becoming a writer. The first is that you need the money; the second, that you have something to say that you think the world should know; and the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings."

source: "The Naked Civil Servant"

categories: Art and Culture

3. "The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."

categories: Happiness -:- History and Nations

4. "People who are lonely are those who do not know what to do with the time when they are alone."

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Time and Passing

5. "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."

source: "Manners from Heaven"

categories: Manners and Ethics

6. "Manners are love in a cool climate."

source: "Manners from Heaven"

categories: Love -:- Manners and Ethics

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

source: "The Naked Civil Servant"

categories: Life and Death

8. "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."

source: "The Naked Civil Servant"

categories: Reality and Imagination -:- Wit and Humor

9. "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes

10. "I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information."

source: "The Naked Civil Servant"

categories: Art and Culture

11. "Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbours."

source: "The Naked Civil Servant"

categories: Health and Alcohol


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