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Quote by Quentin Crisp
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. – Quentin Crisp

Other quotes by Quentin Crisp

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

Category:
Seduction
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Quentin Crisp
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Its no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer. By then, pigs will be your style. – Quentin Crisp

Category:
good
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Quentin Crisp
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Other Quotes from
Intelligence
category

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior. – Tim Robbins

Category:
Intelligence

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older. – Keith Henson

Category:
Intelligence

Cynicism is the intellectual cripples substitute for intelligence. – Russell Lynes

Category:
Intelligence

The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor. – Leland Stanford

Category:
Intelligence

Random Quotes

I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea. – Pablo Neruda

Category:
Water

I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices. – Katey Sagal

Category:
amazing

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue. – Italian Proverb

Category:
Speeches (oratory)

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out. – Alan Cumming

Category:
Fear