Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. Quentin Crisp More Quotes by Quentin Crisp More Quotes From Quentin Crisp The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy. Quentin Crisp sleep war sex 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 threat mean enemy You will survive if you believe in yourself. Quentin Crisp believe-in-yourself ifs believe Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then? Quentin Crisp blame asks praise Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. Quentin Crisp power character hands You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself. Quentin Crisp persons ifs doors If you don't stay in some days, you can't recharge your batteries. Quentin Crisp batteries ifs I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay! Quentin Crisp sitting pay talking Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul. Quentin Crisp fabric clothes soul I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it. Quentin Crisp courses secret young Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. Quentin Crisp self character moving Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. Quentin Crisp sarcastic funny sex I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to "Hamlet" on the grounds that I knew who won. Quentin Crisp age rooms years In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away. Quentin Crisp fate sacrifice sex Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress. Quentin Crisp home two culture Manners are love in a cool climate. Quentin Crisp climate inspirational love It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. Quentin Crisp freedom simple blessing A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac. Quentin Crisp egomaniacs starvation share In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor. Quentin Crisp manhattan surface actors The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. Quentin Crisp genius grace air
