Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
blessing atheism looks
The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
no-friends exhibitionist
Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
drug exhibitionism novices
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
gay disco-music century
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
england hot distinction
The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.
saws portsmouth
I never saw Portsmouth by day.
new-york lying los-angeles
Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
mother children mistake
Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
thinking speak-english speak
I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.
drinking names voice
To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.'
views accomplishment death-penalty
The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
america people england
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
bangs bombs atomic-bomb
As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone.
sex mistake thinking
I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.