Quentin Crisp Quotes

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Quentin Crisp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 25, 1908 - November 21, 1999

Topics

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Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

Joe Biden

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I lived in my car in Hollywood for a year, and then it got towed. My... apartment got towed. How... does that happen?

Joey Diaz

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I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

Andrew Rosenthal

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Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

John Turner

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My dream was always to be on the production side of things. Even as a little kid, when my dad would bring me to the studio, I always loved that.

Shooter Jennings

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I reckon I had 30 Spider-Man costumes over the years since I was a little baby. I had Spider-Man bed sheets.

Tom Holland

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I grew up in a very 'Friday Night Lights,' sports-focused town. I did not play the sports. I was never bullied physically, but I was called names. I was also an overweight kid. I knew what it's like to feel like the other, to feel written off for things that were not in my control - my appearance, my interests.

Robin Lord Taylor

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To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

Roger Moore

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Look at the greatest dressers in history - Philadelphia socialite and diplomat Angier Biddle Duke, Sir Anthony Eden, Fred Astaire, the Duke of Windsor, John F. Kennedy, and Gary Cooper - they all sport the well placed pocket adornment.

Roger Stone

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You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

Luke Pasqualino

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I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

Juan Williams

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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Joseph Butler

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