Quentin Crisp

"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."

"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."

"The people of Northern Ireland are ruled by a regime that is less concerned with morality than with religious doctrine. Their sectarianism is so divisive that, if you say you are an atheist, they ask,…"

"I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an i…"

"There are girls who do not like real life... Some of these girls are innocent enough to think that these unreal friendships will lead to true love — a kind of sexual intercourse that will happen to th…"

"I acquiesced in this on the grounds that the most anyone can expect from a holiday is a change of agony."

"As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can’t leave anything alone."

"The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this problem by defying their elders and copying each other."