Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
QUENTIN CRISPWhile I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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 in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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