272 Quotes by Quentin Crisp

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

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