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 don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should… — 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… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Did you know that Allah promises you a seat in Paradise if you kill a Christian? — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously.… — 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
“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
