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
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of… — 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, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing… — 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
I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me… — 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 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
“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
