53 Quotations by Quentin Crisp
- 1. A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sit ...

- 2. An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

- 3. Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness t ...

- 4. Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed see ...

- 5. Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be sa ...

- 6. Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that i ...

- 7. Fashion is for people who don't know who they are.

- 8. For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

- 9. Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

- 10. However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

- 11. I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This m ...

- 12. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in ...

- 13. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

- 14. If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe d ...

- 15. If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe ...

- 16. In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs o ...

- 17. In the long run, in spite of everything, I have been very lucky. I asked for bread and was given a s ...

- 18. Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?

- 19. It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnersh ...

- 20. It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of the ...

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