Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
Quentin Crisp quotes about
no-friends exhibitionist
Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
parent precaution ifs
If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
noise information minimum
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
rooms east fit
I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.
egomaniacs share starvation
A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
tragedy desire
Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
extremes
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
sexy men handsome
Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?
agony way done
It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
statistics praise natural
To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
gentleman sitting pieces
A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
privacy ifs invading
What is privacy if not for invading?
nerves television tunes
The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.
rewards vices virtue
Vice is its own reward.