3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?
3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.
3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
