Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
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.
men touching excitement
Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
age ambassadors territory
God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.
sex personality use
What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
garden government anarchy
Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
talking pay rooms
I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
girl party thinking
All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
loses
To lose is not always failure.
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.
expression hatred tears
Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
want way manners
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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.
real real-life film
Any film is at least better than real life.