272 Quotes by Quentin Crisp

When coming to the end of an interview: 'You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality'.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

Don't do housework: after a few years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

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.

Tears were to me what glass beads are to African traders.

Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.

You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster

If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.

I told Mr. Hurt it was difficult for actors to play victims, but he has specialized in victims. When he stopped playing me, he played Caligula, which was only me in a sheet. Then he played The Elephant Man, which was only me with a paper bag over my head.