Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. - Quentin Crisp. View more images...

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. - Quentin Crisp. View more images...

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. - Quentin Crisp. View more images...

Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. - Quentin Crisp. View more images...

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. - Quentin Crisp. View more images...

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. - Quentin Crisp. View more images...

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. - Quentin Crisp. View more images...

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. - Quentin Crisp. View more images...

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. - Quentin Crisp. View more images...

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. - Quentin Crisp. View more images...