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The Naked Civil Servant (1975) (TV) More at IMDbPro »

Quentin Crisp: Any film, even the worst, is better than real life.
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Quentin Crisp: Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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Young Queer-baiter: See that copper over there? If you don't give us a quid each, right? I'm gonna tell him you been fiddling with these two.
Quentin Crisp: I defy you to do your worst. It can hardly be my worst. Mine has already and often happened to me. You cannot touch me now. I am one of the "stately homos of England".
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[first lines]
Mr. Crisp: Do you intend to spend your entire life admiring yourself?
Quentin Crisp: If I possibly can.
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[last lines]
Quentin Crisp: Never looking at anyone unless they demand I look. Never speaking to anyone unless spoken to.
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Mr. Pole: You mustn't embrace her, she is my ex-wife, not yours!
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1st Policeman: Are you pansy?
Quentin Crisp: I don't know any other meaning of this word apart from being a flower!
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Quentin Crisp: When the war was declared, I bought two pounds of henna
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Quentin Crisp: Sex is the last refuge of the miserable
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Quentin Crisp: Women speak a language which I don't understand
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