"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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"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?"
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"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
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"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it."
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"Manners are love in a cool climate."
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"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
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"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'"
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