Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
Quentin Crisp
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Graphic Designer
Model
Socialite
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
Happy
Inspirational
Persons
Person
Must
Would
Like
World
Truly
More quotes by Quentin Crisp
I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.
Quentin Crisp
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp
Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
Quentin Crisp
I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.
Quentin Crisp
I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.
Quentin Crisp
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.
Quentin Crisp
Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
Quentin Crisp
Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
Quentin Crisp
You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.
Quentin Crisp
It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
Quentin Crisp
To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
Quentin Crisp
Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
Quentin Crisp
It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.
Quentin Crisp
Vice is its own reward.
Quentin Crisp
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.
Quentin Crisp
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Quentin Crisp
This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.
Quentin Crisp
Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
Quentin Crisp
