If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
QUENTIN CRISPIf at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
QUENTIN CRISPA fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
QUENTIN CRISPFlowers are words even a baby can understand.
QUENTIN CRISPIt may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
QUENTIN CRISPIf you truly love me, kill the bartender.
QUENTIN CRISPWomen have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
QUENTIN CRISPLife was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
QUENTIN CRISPEuphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
QUENTIN CRISPIf you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
QUENTIN CRISPWhen I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
QUENTIN CRISPBecause it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
QUENTIN CRISPIt’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
QUENTIN CRISPManners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
QUENTIN CRISPNo effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
QUENTIN CRISPQuentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
QUENTIN CRISPThe 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.
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