I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

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

I've always lived in the same way.

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.

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

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

Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?