Quentin Crisp quotes
"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."
Take this quote mobile"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?"
"For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook."
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level."
"To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."
"The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity."
"Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress."
"Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep."
"Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever."
"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."