Quentin Crisp quotes

Quentin Crisp was an English writer, raconteur, and actor, renowned for his wit and flamboyant public persona. A prominent figure in London’s bohemian and LGBTQ+ scenes, he became famous for his memoir "The Naked Civil Servant." He continued to inspire with his unapologetic individuality and commentary on society and human nature. Here are 108 of her quotes:

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbours. (Quentin Crisp)

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.

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Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave.

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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

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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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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

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

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

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. (Quentin Crisp)

This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.

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

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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.

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Keeping 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.

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

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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style. (Quentin Crisp)

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.

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I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.

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I became one of the stately homos of England.

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Quentin Crisp

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Occupation: English Writer
Born: December 25, 1908
Died: November 21, 1999
Quotes count: 108
Wikipedia: Quentin Crisp

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