Name	Quentin Crisp
Date of Birth	December 25, 1908
Star Sign	Capricorn
Died	November 21, 1999 (Aged 91)
Occupation	Actor
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Quotes

If at first you don`t succeed, failure may be your style.

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

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Vice is its own reward

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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

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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

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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?"

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I don`t hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned

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You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster

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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn`t get any worse.

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If at first you don`t succeed, failure may be your style.

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

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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.

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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

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America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can`t Swim".

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It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining...

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