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 grave life occurred
Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave
funny missing lasts
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
funny sarcastic children
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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.
funny sarcastic sex
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
funny sarcastic men
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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.
funny success sarcastic
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
african glass tears
Tears were to me what glass beads are to African traders.
dirt few
Don't do housework: after a few years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
complete love
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
basic block building course good lie lies-and-lying moralist mutual seem shocking
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?
coming interview stop
When coming to the end of an interview: 'You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality'.