Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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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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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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