Quentin Crisp Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Men get laid, but women get screwed.”

“Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.”

“I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.”

“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.”

“Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?”

“I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.”

“It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.”

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

“Manners are love in a cool climate.”

“The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.”