List of Quentin Crisp Quotes

Most Men When They Make Up Their Faces, The Makeup Stands Forward, And Their Faces Are Behind.

It Is True That In America I've Become A National Hero, But Really I Was A Hopeless Case, That Was All.

All Liaisons Between Homosexuals Are Conducted As Though They Were Between A Chorus Girl And A Bishop. In Some Cases Both Parties Think They Are Bishops.

Exhibitionists Have No Friends, No Friends At All.

The Rest Of The World In Which I Lived Was Still Stumbling About In Search Of A Weapon With Which To Exterminate This Monster [homosexuality] Whose Shape And Size Were Not Yet Known Or Even Guessed At. It Was Thought To Be Greek In Origin, Smaller Than Socialism But More Deadly, Especially To Children.

Even Hooligans Marry, Though They Know That Marriage Is For A Little While. It Is Alimony That Is For Ever.

All America Is Much The Same.

Every Day Someone Notices Me And Waves To Me, Or Stops And Speaks To Me, Or Asks Me For An Autograph, Or Photographs Me.

The Simplest Comment On My Book Came From My Ballet Teacher. She Said, "i Wish You Hadn't Made Every Line Funny. It's So Depressing."

Posing Was The First Job I Did In Which I Understood What I Was Doing.

Los Angeles Is Just New York Lying Down.

The Americans, Of Course, Are Quite Dotty With Hospitality.