My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. – Quentin Crisp
This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was. – Quentin Crisp
I recommend limiting ones involvement in other peoples lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises. – Quentin Crisp
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. – Quentin Crisp