Quentin Crisp Quotes

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I 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.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.