The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
QUENTIN CRISPI recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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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.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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