Quentin Crisp Quotes

Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
English Writer
Born: Dec 25, 1908
Died: Nov 21, 1999
First Me People Time World You
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. Quentin Crisp
Time Live Universe Changing Side Address Once Those Outcast Find Contempt Without Metropolis Expanding Human Suburbs Inhabited Who Eventually
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. Quentin Crisp
First Worse Dirt Housework Years Get Any After Four Need
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. Quentin Crisp
Exhausted Enough Relationships Our Give Give And Take Take Demands Untrue Partnership Any Explained Little Require Flop Graves Last
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? Quentin Crisp
God You Woman Atheist People Believe Catholics Audience Said Up Yes Ireland Northern Stood Northern Ireland Whom
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. Quentin Crisp
Health Consists Neighbors Having Diseases Same
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. Quentin Crisp
People Think Other Ourselves Reconcile About Purpose Opinion Glowing Existence Very Hold Us Appalling Things
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. Quentin Crisp
Saying Good Will Style Farm Dancer Running Badly Pig Pigs Ballet Ballet Dancer Years While Then Really Meant Meant To Be Your
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. Quentin Crisp
Happiness Life Character Plant Other Immature Solely Consists Would Some Deliberately Consuming Development Toward Most Method Self-Sufficiency Person Hands Human Human Beings Moving Whole Beings Describe Searching Desire
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. Quentin Crisp
Life Funny Me Funny Thing Way Happened Grave Thing
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. Quentin Crisp
Failure You First Style May Succeed If At First Your
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. Quentin Crisp
People Other Pleasantly Minimum Recommend Scant Involvement Limiting Lives
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. Quentin Crisp
Me Cause Three Bicycle Speeds Nerve Give Give Me Simply Force Revolving Stops Being Order Which Then Planets Suddenly Keeps Imagine
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. Quentin Crisp
Relationship You Treat Simple Triviality Never Disaster Disasters Were Achieving Formula Successful Should
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. Quentin Crisp
You Mother Fire Drop Country Fall Out Open Womb Crawl Across Your Grave
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. Quentin Crisp
Opportunity Rudeness Living Strongest Combined Motives Provides Maximum Displaying
Men get laid, but women get screwed. Quentin Crisp
Women Men Get Laid Screwed
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. Quentin Crisp
Me Parenting World Mother Father Threatened Protected
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook. Quentin Crisp
You Will Sex Peel Never Instant Stuff Flavor Cook
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost? Quentin Crisp
World Lost System Has-Been Vast House Been Which Whole Filing
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. Quentin Crisp
Sex Miserable Refuge Last
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. Quentin Crisp
Character Intelligence Though Weaknesses Finding Powerless Hand Modify
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. Quentin Crisp
Reward Own Virtue Carry Must Consumer Shield Green Vice Which Stamps Appeal
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. Quentin Crisp
Love Love Is Too Enough Cornerstone Complete Pliable Must Structure Yielding Much Foundation
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. Quentin Crisp
Enemies Thought Must Signify Threat Constitute Only Never Hostility Over Over It Been Won Means
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. Quentin Crisp
Time Problem Parents Young Defying Solved Another Always How Same Same Time Conform Rebel Now Copying
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. Quentin Crisp
Everybody Despise Know Forgive
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