Quentin Crisp Quotes

In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendly—and the system is brutal!

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.

I became one of the stately homos of England.

There was no need to do any housework after all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.

If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.

I don’t hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.