All Quentin Crisp Quotes
- What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is. Better
- The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either… Accommodate
- One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend. Anyone
- Charisma is the ability to influence without logic. Ability
- If you truly love me, kill the bartender. Bartender
- For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. Change
- In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Expanding
- I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being… Ashamed
- The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it Curiosity
- Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you… Concentrating
- I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share Appetite
- Never get involved with someone who wants to change you Change
- Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf… Accepted
- Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't… All
- Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You… Able
- I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't… Act
- The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches. Capacity
- Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though… Body
- Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you. Believe
- All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the… All
- The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put… Addicted
- Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. Been
- I am the last of Britain's stately homos. Britain
- Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit. Every Weak
- People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual. Heterosexual