Quentin Crisp Quotes

I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.

Nobody really knows what it would take to create something that is self-aware or has a personality. I guess I could imagine a day when perhaps, if we can understand how it works in the human brain, which is unbelievably complicated, it could be possible.

My tendency is to be the guy in the back, even though I often end up being the guy in the front.

Just because people don't trust people doesn't mean [they] don't like them. There are lots of paranoid people in the world. You figure out their personalities and make them work.

You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

It's hard to say how we compare to other people. We each inhabit our own personalities. I have often felt that I'm a very neutral being and that I have almost no personality. I'm drawn to writing partly because I'm fascinated by the mimetic process.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

By any rational metric, I am boring.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up

Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.

If people think I'm a laid-back guy, that's their mistake.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

The self driving car is not self-aware. It's just driving; it's not thinking.