Quentin Crisp Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.”

“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”

“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.”

“Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.”

“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”

“For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.”

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

“There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.”

“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”

“The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.”