Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
moving character self
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
funny sarcastic sex
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
journey long style
The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
character power hands
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
bartender ifs
If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
flirty house world
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
love sex destiny
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
thinking way emotion
I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other.' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.
sex war sleep
The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
opportunity blessing past
To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
soul survival forgiving
Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.
faces becoming homosexuality
Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.
success moving character
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
sex women sassy
Men get laid, but women get screwed.