What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
QUENTIN CRISPWhat would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
QUENTIN CRISPVice is its own reward.
QUENTIN CRISPMasturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
QUENTIN CRISPNothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
QUENTIN CRISPI 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.
QUENTIN CRISPIn an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
QUENTIN CRISPHealth consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
QUENTIN CRISPTo my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
QUENTIN CRISPI never say ‘No’ to anything.
QUENTIN CRISPTo live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
QUENTIN CRISPKeeping 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 CRISPManners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
QUENTIN CRISPLife was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
QUENTIN CRISPOne should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
QUENTIN CRISPI never saw Portsmouth by day.
QUENTIN CRISPThe … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
QUENTIN CRISP