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