Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
real winning men
The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who "goes with" other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
love men mad
What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
men california venice
The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
sexy men handsome
Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?
men touching excitement
Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
hate men thinking
Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
funny sarcastic men
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
men garden soul
If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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'.
drag english-writer
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.