All Quentin Crisp Quotes
- You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. Across
- Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. Dignity
- Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. Complete
- Men get laid, but women get screwed. Get Laid
- In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing… Address
- The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy;… All
- There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that… Becoming
- Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. Existence
- Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased… Abatement
- However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. Funny
- I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. Inspirational
- Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. Combined
- I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops… Bicycle
- Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. Cologne
- Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. Consists
- Manners are love in a cool climate. Climate
- Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. Character
- The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their… Age
- Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which… Book
- An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. Autobiography
- Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. Appeal
- It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance… Blessing
- The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work,… Aging
- Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. Audible
- I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in. Inspirational