272 Quotes by Quentin Crisp

The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.

When I was a child my ineptitude was a burden to my parents and my teachers. They could not see that it was a greater burden to me. I wondered wanly if I would ever discover how to do anything well. At long last I have learned something even better – how not to do anything at all.

There is no Great Dark Man!!!

Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.

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.

The increased scale of your operations will lend you respectability.

Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you.

Now I’ve done and said all I can do and say. I’ve come to the end of my personality, and now if I want anything it’s peace, quiet. The ability, the opportunity to stay in my room and just stagger on. I suppose what I want, in a way, is death.