272 Quotes by Quentin Crisp

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.