Quentin Crisp

The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.

— Quentin Crisp

Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.

— Quentin Crisp

England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.

— Quentin Crisp

People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.

— Quentin Crisp

If you don't stay in some days, you can't recharge your batteries.

— Quentin Crisp

Any film is at least better than real life.

— Quentin Crisp

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

— Quentin Crisp

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

— Quentin Crisp

When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.

— Quentin Crisp

“As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb...I realized that I had made a mistake,”

— Quentin Crisp

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount…

— Quentin Crisp

Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at…

— Quentin Crisp

The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's…

— Quentin Crisp

As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone."

— Quentin Crisp

As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what…

— Quentin Crisp

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

— Quentin Crisp

All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters…

— Quentin Crisp

I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she…

— Quentin Crisp

The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible…

— Quentin Crisp

Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The…

— Quentin Crisp

“Whatever has gone on in the outer world has passed me by. But I think if anyone said to me, 'if you…

— Quentin Crisp

The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate…

— Quentin Crisp

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat…

— Quentin Crisp

I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end…

— Quentin Crisp

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

— Quentin Crisp

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

— Quentin Crisp

You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.

— Quentin Crisp

You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.

— Quentin Crisp

I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

— Quentin Crisp

Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

— Quentin Crisp

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

— Quentin Crisp

Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

— Quentin Crisp

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

— Quentin Crisp

“A clown is a horrible thing to happen to anyone.”

— Quentin Crisp

I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

— Quentin Crisp

I never spend my time doing anything I'll have to do again tomorrow.

— Quentin Crisp

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

— Quentin Crisp

Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.

— Quentin Crisp

To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

— Quentin Crisp

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the…

— Quentin Crisp