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Manners are love in a cool climate.
Quentin Crisp



Biography
Author Profession: Writer
Nationality: English
Born: December 25, 1908
Died: November 21, 1999

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp

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

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.
Quentin Crisp

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

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?
Quentin Crisp

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
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Words
Climate, Cool, Love, Manners
Definitions
Climate, Cool, Love
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