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41 " A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac. "
― Quentin Crisp , The Naked Civil Servant
42 " Vice is its own reward. "
43 " As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb...I realized that I had made a mistake, "
― Quentin Crisp
44 " I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me. "
45 " Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears. "
46 " I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in. "
― Quentin Crisp , Resident Alien: The New York Diaries
47 " Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit? "
48 " Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as building materials selected elements from his own character. "
― Quentin Crisp , How to Have a Lifestyle
49 " If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist, and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist. "
50 " Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. "
51 " What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others. "
52 " Without knowing it, I was acquiring that haughty bearing which is characteristic of so many eccentrics. What other expression would you expect to find on the face of anyone who knows that if he turns his head too quickly, he will see on the faces of others glares of stark terror or grimaces of hatred? Aloofness is the posture of self-defense. "
53 " Whatever has gone on in the outer world has passed me by. But I think if anyone said to me, 'if you go on like this life will pass you by,' I would reply, 'thank God for that, I nearly got mixed up in the beastly thing. "
54 " Sexual intercourse is a poor substitute for masturbation. "
55 " It's explained that all relationship require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. "
― Quentin Crisp , How to Become a Virgin
56 " Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who, before anything has reared its ugly head, have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies. The habit fitted snugly into my well-established world of make-believe. "
57 " Men get laid, but women get screwed. "
58 " It was not so much that I longed for death as that I didn't long for life. "
59 " The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did. "
60 " Then my hostess said, "Oh, Denis (as my name was before I dyed it) never plays the part of a man. "