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.
QUENTIN CRISPLife was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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