Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
egomaniacs share starvation
A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
tragedy desire
Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
funny sarcastic children
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
law white long
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
personality interviews ends
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
extremes
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
love running brave
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
inspirational names numbers
You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.
journey laughing accounts
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
sexy men handsome
Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?
agony way done
It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
winter thinking long
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
opportunity rude motive
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
health ironic disease
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.