Quentin Crisp Quotes
- Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
- Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
- The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
- If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are,…
- The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
- The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded…
- You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
- What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that…
- This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
- Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told…
- I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate…
- Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners.…
- You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society…
- If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman,…
- Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
- Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all.…
- The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
- Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
- To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
- A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to…