Quote by Quentin Crisp
A gentleman doesnt pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of

A gentleman doesnt pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. – Quentin Crisp

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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. – Quentin Crisp

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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right. – Quentin Crisp

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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? – Oliver Goldsmith

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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. – Charles Sumner

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The future has a way of arriving unannounced. – George F. Will

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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. – Quentin Crisp

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