272 Quotes by Quentin Crisp

Vice is its own reward.

I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other.' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.

The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.

To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.

What is privacy if not for invading?

Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.