Quentin Crisp

"For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change."

"Manners are love in a cool climate."

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

"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."

"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."

"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?"