“It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.”
Quentin Crisp
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Prejudice
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“Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.”
Quentin Crisp
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Character
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“The young always have the same problem–how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.”
Quentin Crisp
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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“Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.”
Quentin Crisp
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sex
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“An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.”
Quentin Crisp
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.”
Quentin Crisp
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“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
Quentin Crisp
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Parenting
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“Manners are love in a cool climate.”
Quentin Crisp
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Manners
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“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”
Quentin Crisp
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.”
Quentin Crisp
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Law
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“To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.”
Quentin Crisp
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Knowledge
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“Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?”
Quentin Crisp
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.”
Quentin Crisp
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.”
Quentin Crisp
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Desire
