Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears. Quentin Crisp More Quotes by Quentin Crisp More Quotes From Quentin Crisp Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish. Quentin Crisp anarchy garden government My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous. Quentin Crisp function clear I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known. Quentin Crisp mad effort world Flowers are words even a baby can understand. Quentin Crisp flower baby 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 Quentin Crisp keys faces morning 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 green vices inspirational An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. Quentin Crisp lasts missing funny 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 god giving order Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever. Quentin Crisp Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. Quentin Crisp For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook. Quentin Crisp Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost? Quentin Crisp Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave. Quentin Crisp The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity. Quentin Crisp
