74 ordspråk av Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp föddes den December 25th 1908 och dog den 21 November 1999 - English writer
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 A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. |
| An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. |
| Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: ''If you truly love me, kill the bartender.'' |
| Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. |
| Don't do housework: after a few years the dirt doesn't get any worse. |
| Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head |
| Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. |
| Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. |
| Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. |
| Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. |
| For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change |
| For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook. |
| Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. |
| However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. |
| I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned |
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Proverb (1469539 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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