One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
Quentin CrispWhy get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
Quentin CrispThe war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
Quentin CrispEverybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody.
Quentin CrispOther-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.
Quentin CrispI came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.
Quentin Crisp