Quentin Crisp Quotes

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining...

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can`t Swim".

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.

You fall out of your mother`s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

If at first you don`t succeed, failure may be your style.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn`t get any worse.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy

You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster

I don`t hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned

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?"

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.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head

Vice is its own reward

Health consists of having the same diseases as one`s neighbors.

If at first you don`t succeed, failure may be your style.