Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
love thinking style
The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.
thinking religion insulting
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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.
confused thinking mind
Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.
winter thinking long
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
girl party thinking
All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
thinking speak-english speak
I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.
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.
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.
thinking way emotion
I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other.' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.
forgiveness hilarious thinking
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
gay thinking proud
I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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.