272 Quotes by Quentin Crisp

I don’t hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.

The place where no harm can come is the place where nothing at all can come.

The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can’t go along with it.

I did not know that a reputation for wit is earned not by making jokes, but by laughing at the pleasantries of others.

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides.

I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Mr Melly had to be obscene to be believed.

It is hard enough to share wealth without being involved in undignified scenes; shared poverty consists of nothing else.