Best Quotes by Quentin Crisp (Top 10)

  1. The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
  2. Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
  3. When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
  4. The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
  5. Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
  6. Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
  7. Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
  8. You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
  9. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
  10. There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

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