Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
Quentin Crisp quotes about
clown country evening facts loathe love rejection speaks truth whipped
It is not a biopic; it is not a trawl through the facts of somebody's life. It is more an evening with a Shakespearean clown who speaks the truth and was whipped for his pains. Writing the play made me love and loathe my country more: love it that it could create, and has always created, one-offs like Quentin; loathe it for its rejection of him.
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.
bangs bombs atomic-bomb
As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone.
loses
To lose is not always failure.
no-friends exhibitionist
Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
egomaniacs share starvation
A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
privacy ifs invading
What is privacy if not for invading?
nerves television tunes
The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.
capacity-to-love people capacity
The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.
introvert environment subjects
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
expanding-universe sides outcast
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.