Memorable Quotes and quotations from Quentin CrispQuentin CrispQuentin 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 - - Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. Quentin Crisp - - Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. Quentin Crisp - - Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. Quentin Crisp - - To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. Quentin Crisp - - Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. Quentin Crisp - - The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity. Quentin Crisp - - To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. Quentin Crisp - - Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. Quentin Crisp - - The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once. Quentin Crisp - - For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook. Quentin Crisp - - 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 - - One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend. Quentin Crisp - - 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 - - Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress. Quentin Crisp - - Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever. |
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