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.

— Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp Quotes

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face.

— Quentin Crisp

Manners are love in a cool climate.

— Quentin Crisp

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.

— Quentin Crisp

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

— Quentin Crisp

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.

— Quentin Crisp

In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

— Quentin Crisp

Los Angeles is just New York lying down.

— Quentin Crisp

I became one of the stately homos of England.

— Quentin Crisp

To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

— Quentin Crisp

Vice is its own reward.

— Quentin Crisp

I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to “Hamlet” on the grounds that I knew who won.

— Quentin Crisp

The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.

— Quentin Crisp

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

— Quentin Crisp

You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.

— Quentin Crisp

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

— Quentin Crisp

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!

— Quentin Crisp

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.

— Quentin Crisp

Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

— Quentin Crisp

The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

— Quentin Crisp

What is privacy if not for invading?

— Quentin Crisp
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