Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
saws portsmouth
I never saw Portsmouth by day.
new-york lying los-angeles
Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
mother children mistake
Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
thinking speak-english speak
I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.
drinking names voice
To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.'
views accomplishment death-penalty
The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
america people england
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
bangs bombs atomic-bomb
As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone.
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.
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.
talent ifs
If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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.
littles alimony knows
Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
parent precaution ifs
If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.