Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

Quote by Quentin Crisp

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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the...

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as...

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as...

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

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

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for...

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for...

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

If I were asked to describe the difference between the sexes in the gay world,...

If I were asked to describe the difference between the sexes in the gay world,...

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...

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable

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.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years...

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years...

The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it.

The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it