Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
QUENTIN CRISPWhile I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Vice is its own reward.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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To lose is not always failure.
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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