Quentin Crisp Quotes
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.
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Many hooligans discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.
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Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.
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As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, 'they can’t leave anything alone.'
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The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.
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Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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 rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster homosexuality whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.
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Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.
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I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.
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God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.
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I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.
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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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Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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He explained to me that he wanted a simple boy-meets-girl story with lyrics. This I felt was quite beyond my capabilities. I did not know any boys who met girls.