Famous Quotes / Quentin Crisp
53 Quotations by Quentin Crisp
- 41. The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having th ...
- 42. The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appa ...
- 43. The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now s ...
- 44. There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that ...
- 45. There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse.
- 46. This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cro ...
- 47. This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
- 48. Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its ...
- 49. To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- 50. Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disast ...
- 51. Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry ...
- 52. When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up a ...
- 53. Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.