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 kids years
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
sexy men handsome
Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?
sleep opposites needs
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
england homosexuality
I became one of the stately homos of England.
wise art choices
Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
people had-enough mass
Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
people needs needed
I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me
noise information minimum
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
rooms east fit
I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.
men touching excitement
Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
age ambassadors territory
God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.
sex personality use
What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
garden government anarchy
Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
talking pay rooms
I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!