Quentin Tarantino quote: "I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies."

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don&...
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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the cra...
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do...
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it....
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies wi...
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I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just ...
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None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period ...
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the fai...
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't ev...
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets he...
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I kne...
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One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and every...
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I ...
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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The good ideas will survive.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
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'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my...
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch the...
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge...
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I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can...
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching ...
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my o...
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My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a ...
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I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea...
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In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at....
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I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla...
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
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Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish...
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a m...
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I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore wo...
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I'm an American, our names don't mean shit.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a...
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type o...
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I'm not, you know, Ronald McDonald opening up this Kmart or something. Rather than asking me for my ...
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That part that was in the wall, that was the bomb. I wanted a lot of wall time and Wally gave me the...
QUENTIN TARANTINO

If there's another level of heaven, that's where I'm at,
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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Kill Bill Vol. I.
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I could do it, ... I've actually figured out a way, even though the characters have gotten older, to...
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The fact that England has embraced me as one of its own is really cool,
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Tell you what. Next time I do a movie, you can drive me to the set.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Ben Affleck, he looked like a little girl!,
QUENTIN TARANTINO

[Remember when] he almost made our producer cry?
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His movie is called 'Planet Terror,' and mine is called 'Death Proof,' ... Mine is sort of a slasher...
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I don't think it's a stretch. I always knew Johnny was a good actor. But also, when you're looking f...
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It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses...
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the a...
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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I'm not, you know, Ronald McDonald opening up this Kmart or something, ... Rather than asking me for...
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[While the film does have its share of gags, it's the closest Knoxville has ever come to a full-on d...
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... Any guy that's going to get shot for his art, that's an actor who will go [all the] way with you...
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This CGI bullshit is the death knell of cinema. If I'd wanted all that computer game bullshit, I'd h...
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered a...
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I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Dj...
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Do i look like a beautiful blond with big tits and an ass that tastes like French vanilla ice-cream?...
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make o...
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably...
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing no...
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional eq...
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If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top te...
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in t...
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We haven't changed our view that, right now, there is not a safety concern, not a public health conc...
LAURA TARANTINO

Color is not a good indicator ... There are ways to tell meat is not fresh.
LAURA TARANTINO

Everything we know suggests the levels we're getting now are reliable and reflect what is in the mar...
LAURA TARANTINO

For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all ...
QUENTIN BRYCE

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen chan...
QUENTIN CRISP

I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Au...
QUENTIN BRYCE

Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the wo...
QUENTIN BRYCE

The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of...
QUENTIN BRYCE

It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet...
QUENTIN BRYCE

The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and th...
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I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be ...
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Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue...
QUENTIN BRYCE

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distract...
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The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
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It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and o...
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I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawi...
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only...
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I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, ...
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I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainment...
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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but the...
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Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don&#...
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance...
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Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose i...
QUENTIN BLAKE

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled ac...
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphe...
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature...
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won ...
QUENTIN CRISP

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

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum...
QUENTIN CRISP

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolvin...
QUENTIN CRISP

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

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitt...
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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...
QUENTIN CRISP

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnersh...
QUENTIN CRISP

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
QUENTIN CRISP

All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formati...
QUENTIN BRYCE

One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to t...
QUENTIN BRYCE

I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, yo...
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We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was ...
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I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in busines...
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My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz;...
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly...
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I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of we...
QUENTIN BRYCE

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of ...
QUENTIN CRISP

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appa...
QUENTIN CRISP

Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
QUENTIN CRISP

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that the...
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you unders...
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness t...
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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity ...
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes from having the ...
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appa...
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. Ther...
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
QUENTIN CRISP

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe...
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its...
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if ...
QUENTIN CRISP

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnersh...
QUENTIN CRISP

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
QUENTIN CRISP

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic bui...
QUENTIN CRISP

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe d...
QUENTIN CRISP

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sit...
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry...
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem ...
QUENTIN CRISP

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be sa...
QUENTIN CRISP

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who...
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many yea...
QUENTIN CRISP

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs o...
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This m...
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up a...
QUENTIN CRISP

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Vice is its own reward
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if...
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You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it we...
QUENTIN CRISP

Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
QUENTIN CRISP

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
QUENTIN CRISP

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up a...
QUENTIN CRISP

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be sa...
QUENTIN CRISP

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of ...
QUENTIN CRISP

I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
QUENTIN BLAKE

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of the...
QUENTIN CRISP

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up a...
QUENTIN CRISP

The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzli...
QUENTIN BRYCE

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appa...
QUENTIN CRISP

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be ...
QUENTIN CRISP

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
QUENTIN CRISP

The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey ...
QUENTIN BRYCE

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

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?
QUENTIN CRISP

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
QUENTIN CRISP

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of tw...
QUENTIN CRISP

Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed see...
QUENTIN CRISP

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that i...
QUENTIN CRISP

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now so...
QUENTIN CRISP

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is...
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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 wor...
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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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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disast...
QUENTIN CRISP

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
QUENTIN CRISP

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

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you underst...
QUENTIN CRISP

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now s...
QUENTIN CRISP

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
QUENTIN CRISP

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

Turning a broken process into a “non-negotiable” standard does not a good procedure make.
QUENTIN BRAUN

It takes more than talking points and consultative knowhow. What sets apart a legitimate and compete...
QUENTIN BRAUN

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

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