Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
love life foundation
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
air grace genius
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
people rooms known
I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
agony way done
It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
statistics praise natural
To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
journey laughing accounts
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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.
extremes
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
personality interviews ends
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
law white long
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
funny sarcastic children
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
country travel america
One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed."
egomaniacs share starvation
A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
mad effort world
I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.