Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
lying complaining crowns
The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr's crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
forgiving despise crisps
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
funny life way
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
love funny sex
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
want british impression
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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.