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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."

"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."

"Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty."

"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."

"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."

"It is better to be kind than be impolite."
Explore more quotes by Quentin Crisp

"There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings."

"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."

"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."

"It's 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."

"Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh."
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