272 Quotes by Quentin Crisp

I am the last of Britain’s stately homos.

There are a lot of people in the world who are not loved and we must make an inconspicuous dash to them to save them, to help them. To live a life and not be loved is a terrible thing. And we can spare them that if we are attentive.

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn’t even want the beastly thing.

A little old lady once said to me, ‘I have known a great many men. All of them had to be carried every step of the way.

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.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me.

There is no dark man.

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it.