Quentin Crisp

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#teenagers #life

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#fashion #know #who #you

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#inspirational #self-discovery #humor

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#creativity #humor #irony-of-life #art

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#home

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#ceased #constitute #hostility #means #must

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#father #me #mother #protected #threatened

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#ballet #ballet dancer #dancer #farm #good

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#country #crawl #drop #fall #fire

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

— Quentin Crisp

#enough #foundation #love #love is #much