Quentin Crisp

Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

— Quentin Crisp

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

— Quentin Crisp

The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

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In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to…

— Quentin Crisp

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

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As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's…

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“Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.”

— Quentin Crisp

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or…

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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone…

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“Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is,…

— Quentin Crisp

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I…

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The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only…

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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and…

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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only…

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What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What…

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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by…

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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

— Quentin Crisp

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned

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Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces.…

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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

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I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me…

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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties…

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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter…

— Quentin Crisp

You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster

— Quentin Crisp

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at…

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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you…

— Quentin Crisp

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

— Quentin Crisp

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that…

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Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.

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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

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If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, "Shop around, I don't think you'll…

— Quentin Crisp

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want…

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The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love.…

— Quentin Crisp

The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed,…

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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done…

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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this…

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“Zealots are totally incapable of any emotion other than rage. It is an unalterable law that people who claim to care about…

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