I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned

Quote by Quentin Crisp

Topics: Foreigners Quotes

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves...

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves...

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I...

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I...

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps...

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps...

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good....

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good....

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms...

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms...

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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

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

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I...

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I...

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality...

You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality...

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the...

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the...

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes...

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes...

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and...

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and...

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so...

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so...

I have suffered much; preserve my life, lord, according to your word.

I have suffered much; preserve my life, lord, according to your word.

Ll men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion...

Ll men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion...