Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
funny success sarcastic
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
relationship giving demand
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
inspirational-life want world
What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
mean hands ifs
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
love life relationship
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
regret doubt looks
Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
happiness effort enormous
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
forgiveness hilarious thinking
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
fashion style able
Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
writing realist ifs
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
inspirational levels dignity
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
sad fashion being-yourself
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
gay thinking proud
I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
relationship marriage successful
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.