Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've come from a very masculine country to a feminine country. England was very masculine; people went from England to abroad, and… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides. — 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
What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block… — 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
When I was young, I wanted to find the Great Dark Man. When I said that I realise now that people thought… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the… — 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
