You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are. Quentin Crisp More Quotes by Quentin Crisp More Quotes From Quentin Crisp Los Angeles is just New York lying down. Quentin Crisp los-angelesnew-yorklying What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others. Quentin Crisp personalityusesex What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is. Quentin Crisp madlovemen I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information. Quentin Crisp minimuminformationnoise To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it. Quentin Crisp statisticspraisenatural To lose is not always failure. Quentin Crisp loses A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. Quentin Crisp piecesgentlemansitting As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled. Quentin Crisp marriagehusbandpeople The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides Quentin Crisp californiapracticemen Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, "I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him." Quentin Crisp balletdoeteacher Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all. Quentin Crisp exhibitionistno-friends Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained. Quentin Crisp styleconsciousnesspersonality This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there. Quentin Crisp extremeshilarious Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears. Quentin Crisp tearshatredexpression If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident of ourselves and may, with any luck, be confident of others. Our object will be to enjoy our selves. But to make sure that our names are permanently on the cast list, it will be advisable to be of interest to others. This aim must never be confused with the desire to be popular. Quentin Crisp confusedselfnames Never get involved with someone who wants to change you Quentin Crisp get-involvedwantadvice In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Quentin Crisp expanding-universeoutcastsides For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. Quentin Crisp introvertchangeart I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all. Quentin Crisp mistakesexthinking In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal! Quentin Crisp englandamericapeople
