It is not a biopic; it is not a trawl through the facts of somebody's life. It is more an evening with a Shakespearean clown who speaks the truth and was whipped for his pains. Writing the play made me love and loathe my country more: love it that it could create, and has always created, one-offs like Quentin; loathe it for its rejection of him. - Quentin Crisp Quotes
It is not a biopic; it is not a trawl through the facts of somebody's life. It is more an evening with a Shakespearean clown who speaks the truth and was whipped for his pains. Writing the play made me love and loathe my country more: love it that it could create, and has always created, one-offs like Quentin; loathe it for its rejection of him. Quentin Crisp
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. - Quentin Crisp Quotes

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

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I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned - Quentin Crisp Quotes

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned

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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. - Quentin Crisp Quotes

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. - Quentin Crisp Quotes

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

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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. - Quentin Crisp Quotes

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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Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. - Quentin Crisp Quotes

Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. - Quentin Crisp Quotes

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses - Quentin Crisp Quotes

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses

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Los Angeles is just New York lying down - Quentin Crisp Quotes

Los Angeles is just New York lying down

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Vice is its own reward - Quentin Crisp Quotes

Vice is its own reward

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