272 Quotes by Quentin Crisp

I have this lust for small talk. Nobody escapes my love.

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

Brave men hide their deeds as decent folk their alms. They disguise them or make excuses for them.

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.

The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”

I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

Even in childhood I was mad about men in uniform.

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

Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment but of boredom.