Quentin Crisp Sex Quotations

While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.

As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.

Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?

I became one of the stately homos of England.

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.

I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.

Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

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