If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal! — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who, before anything has reared its ugly… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
