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Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt,  – ), was an English writer and raconteur.

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Manners are love in a cool climate.

Tags: Funny, Mean, Kind
Quentin Crisp

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.

Tags: Simple, Boredom, Tolerance
Quentin Crisp

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Tags: Often, Ask
Quentin Crisp

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

Tags: Believe, Woman, Said
Quentin Crisp

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

Tags: Saying, While, Style
Quentin Crisp

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Tags: Success, Common, Heavy
Quentin Crisp

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

Tags: Seek, Punished
Quentin Crisp

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Tags: Same, Neighbors, Diseases
Quentin Crisp

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Tags: Faith, Must, Follow
Quentin Crisp

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Tags: Mother, Father, Threatened
Quentin Crisp

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