The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. -Quentin Crisp Happiness
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. -Quentin Crisp Relationship
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. -Quentin Crisp Freedom
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. -Quentin Crisp Intelligence
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. -Quentin Crisp Happiness
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? -Quentin Crisp God
