Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
love destiny extra-effort
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
bullying gay phones
The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, "Would you like to make an appointment?"
mean enemy threat
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
expanding-universe addresses sides
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
teenage parent rebel
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
inspirational-life want world
What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
forgiveness hilarious thinking
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
blame praise asks
Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
fathers-day mother dad
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
block lying people
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?
bangs bombs atomic-bomb
As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone.
plato boys names
When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas. He knew them only 'in Braille' - the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial - after a life like that?
saws portsmouth
I never saw Portsmouth by day.
queens princess heart
I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she deserved. She could have been Queen of England - and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering.