Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
want get-involved involved
Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
marriage swans want
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
want way manners
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
hands desire want
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing.
want british impression
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
inspirational-life want world
What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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.
drag
Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
bag difficult elephant hurt paper played playing stopped
I told Mr. Hurt it was difficult for actors to play victims, but he has specialized in victims. When he stopped playing me, he played Caligula, which was only me in a sheet. Then he played The Elephant Man, which was only me with a paper bag over my head.