Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

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.

The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, "Would you like to make an appointment?"

Happiness is the only thing I understand.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.