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

Quentin Crisp · Intelligence

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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?

God

Quentin Crisp

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Cool

Quentin Crisp

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

Money

Quentin Crisp

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.

Freedom