Quentin Crisp Quotes

I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being...

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of the...

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of tw...

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that the...

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with ...

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any wor...

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if ...

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artis...

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of ...

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now so...

The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant ex...

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up a...

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its...

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his ...

All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have ha...