The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
QUENTIN CRISPWhen asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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To lose is not always failure.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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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.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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