Quentin Crisp Quotes

Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.

Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

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 that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

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

I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.

A pinch of notoriety will do.