"There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse."
-- Quentin Crisp

"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last chapter missing."
-- Quentin Crisp

"Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?"
--Quentin Crisp