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“Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.”
― Quentin Crisp

“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”
― Quentin Crisp

“It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.”
― Quentin Crisp

“Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”
― Quentin Crisp

“The very purpose of existence it to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think of us.”
― Quentin Crisp

“It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.”
― Quentin Crisp

“The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth 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, The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp

“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
― 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

“I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.”
― Quentin Crisp

“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”
― Quentin Crisp

“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien

“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.”
― Quentin Crisp

“If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.”
― Quentin Crisp