Quentin Crisp on Time
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Quentin Crisp, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Quentin Crisp and filed under "time" 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 #64275: "Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going."
Attributed to Quentin Crisp, entry #58207: "I acquiesced in this on the grounds that the most anyone can expect from a holiday is a change of agony."
7 Quotes by Quentin Crisp on Time
"Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going."
"I acquiesced in this on the grounds that the most anyone can expect from a holiday is a change of agony."
"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast."
"There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse."
"The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this problem by defying their elders and copying each other."
"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 never saw Portsmouth by day."