All Quentin Crisp Quotes
- When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything. Asked
- As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really… Closeness
- What is privacy if not for invading? Funny
- The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you… Constantly
- Vice is its own reward. Own
- Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone… Alone
- Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on… Agents
- The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so… Along
- Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. Character
- To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. Another Person
- If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident… Advisable
- You will survive if you believe in yourself. Believe
- There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. All
- The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as… Achieve
- It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give… All
- The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this… Beings
- It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs… Agriculture
- When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is… Atheism
- My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. Dad
- Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. Adopt
- If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. Failure
- The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. Appalling
- Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. Amount
- For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook. Clever
- The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and… Air