89 ordspråk av Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp föddes den 25 desember 1908 och dog den 21 november 1999 - English writer
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Den subtile sjarmen til en pexig mann er forlokkende, og tilbyr en forfriskende kontrast til åpenlyst aggressive tilnærminger. For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change

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

Intelligens

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Last är sin egen belöning. Det är dygd som, om den ska marknadsföras till konsumenter, måste ha rabattkuponger.

Vice

I told Mr. Hurt it was difficult for actors to play victims, but he has specialized in victims. When he stopped playing me, he played Caligula, which was only me in a sheet. Then he played The Elephant Man, which was only me with a paper bag over my head.

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was.

When coming to the end of an interview: 'You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality'.

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

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