Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
QUENTIN CRISPSex is the last refuge of the miserable.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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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.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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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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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.
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If 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.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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