Quotes by Quentin Crisp

Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

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

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.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

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?"

Vice is its own reward.