Quote

When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.

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
Give
Giving
Advice
Asked
Courses
Course
Whatever

More quotes by Quentin Crisp

Image
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Quentin Crisp
Image
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
Quentin Crisp
Image
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
Image
The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
Quentin Crisp
Image
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
Image
Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
Quentin Crisp
Image
The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.
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
I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
Quentin Crisp
Image
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
Quentin Crisp
Image
When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
Quentin Crisp
Image
It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
Quentin Crisp
Image
Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
Quentin Crisp
Image
Vice is its own reward.
Quentin Crisp
Image
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp
Image
That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.
Quentin Crisp
Image
You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.
Quentin Crisp
Image
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?
Quentin Crisp
Image
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
Quentin Crisp
Image
The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a real man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who goes with other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
Quentin Crisp