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Quentin Crisp föddes den 25 Dezember 1908 och dog den 21 November 1999 - English writer
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 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.

 An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

 Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: ''If you truly love me, kill the bartender.''

 Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

 Don't do housework: after a few years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

 Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head

 Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

 Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

 Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

 Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

 For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change

 For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

 Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

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

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


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