I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
QUENTIN CRISPLife was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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When 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.
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