272 Quotes by Quentin Crisp

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

I never saw Portsmouth by day.

Los Angeles is just New York lying down.