Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
personality interviews ends
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
law white long
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
funny sarcastic children
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
tragedy desire
Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
country travel america
One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed."
egomaniacs share starvation
A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
mad effort world
I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.
funny kids years
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
sexy men handsome
Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?
sleep opposites needs
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
england homosexuality
I became one of the stately homos of England.
wise art choices
Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
people had-enough mass
Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
people needs needed
I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me