quotes by Quentin Crisp

"The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face"
— Quentin Crisp

"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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— Quentin Crisp

"It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way."
— Quentin Crisp

"However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police."
— 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?
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— Quentin Crisp

"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper."
— Quentin Crisp

"Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. "
— Quentin Crisp

"I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in."
— Quentin Crisp (Resident Alien: The New York Diaries)

"Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking."
— Quentin Crisp

"Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?""
— Quentin Crisp

"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. "
— Quentin Crisp