Quentin Crisp on Knowledge
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Quentin Crisp, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Quentin Crisp, entry #96826: "Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever."
Attributed to Quentin Crisp, entry #235758: "To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."
5 Quotes by Quentin Crisp on Knowledge
"Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever."
"To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."
"He explained to me that he wanted a simple boy-meets-girl story with lyrics. This I felt was quite beyond my capabilities. I did not know any boys who met girls."
"I now know that if you describe things as better as they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you are called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you are called a satirist."
"We think we write definitively of those parts of our nature that are dead and therefore beyond change, but that which writes is still changing — still in doubt. Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry."