Quentin Crisp on Life
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Quentin Crisp, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Quentin Crisp and filed under "life" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Quentin Crisp, entry #184475: "When stripped, I looked less like "Il David" than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis."
Attributed to Quentin Crisp, entry #4699: "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."
7 Quotes by Quentin Crisp on Life
"When stripped, I looked less like "Il David" than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis."
"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."
"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."
"The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain."
"I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east."
"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn’t even want the beastly thing."
"'You talk for talking’s sake,' she hissed. I asked if that was bad. 'I mean it,' the girl replied. 'You talk for talking’s sake.' I had heard her the first time and had understood the words but not the contempt with which they were charged. 'Would you be equally annoyed,' I asked, 'if I danced for dancing’s sake? I should have said, 'Would you hate me if I lived for living’s sake?' This would have been the total question — the one to which a full reply could have saved the world."