I've never been baptised.

- Quentin S. Crisp

I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.

- Quentin S. Crisp

I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness,…

- Quentin S. Crisp

I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products …

- Quentin S. Crisp

I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle o…

- Quentin S. Crisp

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

- Quentin S. Crisp

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

- Quentin S. Crisp

I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

- Quentin S. Crisp

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books m…

- Quentin S. Crisp