Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
QUENTIN CRISPThe 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
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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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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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.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Masturbation 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.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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