My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's… — 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
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
When I was young, I don't know how, I spent all my time in the presence of married women telling me their… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done… — 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
I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost? — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers,… — 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
