Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
people shameless share
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share
capacity-to-love people capacity
The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.
thinking people secret
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
people homosexual
People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
marriage husband people
As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
people rooms known
I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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
america people england
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
block lying people
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?
people promise passionate
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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.