Quentin Crisp

11 quotations
Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Quentin Crisp · Desire
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
Quentin Crisp · Extremes and Extremists
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
Quentin Crisp · Flirting
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp · Knowledge
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Quentin Crisp · Law and Lawyers
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
Quentin Crisp · Life and Living
Manners are love in a cool climate.
Quentin Crisp · Manners
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp · Parents and Parenting
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
Quentin Crisp · Police
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Quentin Crisp · Autobiography
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Quentin Crisp · Sex

Subjects Quentin Crisp spoke about

Autobiography Desire Extremes and Extremists Flirting Knowledge Law and Lawyers Life and Living Manners Parents and Parenting Police Sex