Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
astrology venus rubbish
You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish.
sex mistake thinking
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.
years age rooms
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to "Hamlet" on the grounds that I knew who won.
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.
sex fate sacrifice
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.
want way manners
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
function clear
My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.
home two culture
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
blessing atheism looks
The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
noise information minimum
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
children greek world
The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.
drug exhibitionism novices
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
way looks sometimes
Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.