Quentin Crisp quotes - Page : 3

" Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. " # Love # Sex # Politicians and Politics

" Manners are love in a cool climate. " # Manners # Love # World Affairs

" Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender. " # Men # Love # Courage

" In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. " # Outcasts # Change # Truth

" However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. " # Police # Failure # Goals

" When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe? " # Atheism # Love # Catholicism

" An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. " # Autobiography

" The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. " # Poverty and The Poor # Genius # Grace

" It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. " # Prejudice # Bores and Boredom # Liberals

" It is explained that all relationships 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. " # Relationships # Society # Marriage