Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?
"Quentin Crisp" was an English writer and raconteur.
From a conventional suburban background, Crisp grew up with effeminate tendencies, which he flaunted by parading the streets in make-up and painted nails, and working as a Male prostitution/rent-boy. He then spent thirty years as a professional model for life-classes in art colleges. The interviews he gave about his unusual life attracted increasing public curiosity, and he was soon sought after for his highly individual views on social manners and the cultivating of style. His one-man stage show was a long-running hit, both in England and America, and he also appeared in films and on TV. Crisp defied convention by criticising both gay liberation and Diana, Princess of Wales.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Quentin Crisp on Wikipedia.Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Vice is its own reward.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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.
Never get involved with someone who wants to change you.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Fashion is for people who don't know who they are.
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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.
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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