Quentin Crisp Said

“I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me”

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

“To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.”

“One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.”

“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.”

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

“I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.”

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”

“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.”

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.”

“Never get involved with someone who wants to change you.”

“Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.”

“If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.”

“If there were no applause and no criticism, who would you be?”

“Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.”