Quote

Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.

Quentin Crisp

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Exhibitionist
Friends

More quotes by Quentin Crisp

Image
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
Quentin Crisp
Image
I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
Quentin Crisp
Image
All America is much the same.
Quentin Crisp
Image
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
Quentin Crisp
Image
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Quentin Crisp
Image
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Quentin Crisp
Image
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
Image
When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
Quentin Crisp
Image
What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
Quentin Crisp
Image
I've always lived in the same way.
Quentin Crisp
Image
Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
Quentin Crisp
Image
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to Hamlet on the grounds that I knew who won.
Quentin Crisp
Image
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp
Image
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Quentin Crisp
Image
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
Image
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
Quentin Crisp
Image
To lose is not always failure.
Quentin Crisp
Image
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
Image
I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
Quentin Crisp
Image
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
Quentin Crisp