Quentin Crisp Quotes

The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.

I became one of the stately homos of England.

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

The low dive had set a standard that only middle-aged hooligans could remember and to which they looked back as Mrs Lot at Sodom.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!

Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.

Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

When stripped, I looked less like "Il David" than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

There are girls who do not like real life... Some of these girls are innocent enough to think that these unreal friendships [with homosexuals] will lead to true love — a kind of sexual intercourse that will happen to them without their having to take too horribly much notice. Even those who are sufficiently sophisticated to know that this will not be so persist in these relationships. They provide an opportunity to lavish emotion on a pseudo-man without paying the price that in heterosexual circumstances would be inevitable.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbours.