Quentin Crisp Quotes

You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. - Quentin Crisp

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

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making. - Quentin Crisp

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? - Quentin Crisp

When coming to the end of an interview: 'You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality'. - Quentin Crisp

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. - Quentin Crisp

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. - Quentin Crisp

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. - Quentin Crisp

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there. - Quentin Crisp

This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was. - Quentin Crisp

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