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Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
— Quentin Crisp
Yes, you may ask my name but only if you can tell me: are your thighs as fine as a fresh, crisp morning in early July?
— Robert Clark
Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
— Quentin Crisp
Then my hostess said, Oh, Denis (as my name was before I dyed it) never plays the part of a man.
— Quentin Crisp
It's the opposite of that. Engineers in lab coats have created a musical experience that is so crisp and clean, it can literally improve your hearing.
— Barry Goldberg
What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
— Quentin Crisp
Because he smells fantastic - like warm pears and crisp air.
— Kristen Callihan
Winter was fond of paper. She liked the crisp, tactile way it crinkled beneath her fingers.
— Marissa Meyer
I take them 8 to 80, dumb, crippled, and crazy. Crisp and clean with no caffeine, and a pair of spandex or either tight jeans.
— Big Daddy Kane
The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.
— Dylan Thomas
Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
— Quentin Crisp
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
— Quentin Crisp
When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
— Quentin Crisp
And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
— Quentin Crisp
I still felt unformed, like a cake half baked with edges crisp, but still mushy in the middle.
— Sarah Dessen
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
— Quentin Crisp
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
— Quentin Crisp
A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright.
— George R R Martin
To lose is not always failure.
— Quentin Crisp
As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb ... I realized that I had made a mistake,
— Quentin Crisp
Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
— Quentin Crisp
I am the last of Britain's stately homos.
— Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?
— Quentin Crisp
The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.
— Terry Crisp
I see you in my mind crisp and concise and I will stop at nothing to make the vision reality.
— Robert McGinley
I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
— Quentin Crisp
Life begins again when it gets crisp in the fall.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.
— Franklyn Ajaye
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
— Quentin Crisp
You will survive if you believe in yourself.
— Quentin Crisp
Manners are love in a cool climate.
— Quentin Crisp
If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases,there's something wrong with your argument. — Maurice Saatchi
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
— Quentin Crisp
If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
— Quentin Crisp
Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
— Quentin Crisp
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
— Quentin Crisp
As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
Any film is at least better than real life.
— Quentin Crisp
in a crisp block, glinting under the street lights.
— Robert Bryndza
Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
— Quentin Crisp
If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
— Quentin Crisp
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
— Quentin Crisp
Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
— Quentin Crisp
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share
— Quentin Crisp
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
— Quentin Crisp
I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
— Quentin Crisp
Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.
— Adelaide Crapsey
What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
— Quentin Crisp
The best thing to do against life was to fold the paper so that it made a perfectsquare, crisp, thick, impervious even to life. — Virginia Woolf
Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.
— Elif Shafak
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
— Quentin Crisp
To a literate reader, a crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase are among life's greatest pleasures. And
— Steven Pinker
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.
— J.K. Rowling
Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
— Quentin Crisp
I don't think I was strong in life. Now it seems like I loved every moment, thatevery breath was charmed and crisp. — Kendare Blake
Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
— Quentin Crisp
Australia smelt of apples. Ripe, green, crisp apples. A smell so sharp and sweet it made my teeth tingle.
— Andrea Levy
The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
— Quentin Crisp
If our goalies were in a divorce case, they could sue for lack of support and be millionaires tomorrow.
— Terry Crisp
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
— Quentin Crisp
I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
— Quentin Crisp
She breathed in the crisp autumn air, hoping the loveliness of nature would somehow cleanse her soul and overshadow her sorrow.
— J.E.B. Spredemann
It is no longer possible to be exotic.
— Quentin Crisp
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
— Quentin Crisp
Reformed theology is ALWAYS being reformed in each new generation. And reformed theology as it is usually reported today is NOT the whole story.
— Oliver D. Crisp
always puts me in mind of that F. Scott Fitzgerald line: Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. The
— Blake Crouch
I think we lost something else when we lost that crisp rhythm, some general shared belief that we could count on certain things.
— Karen Thompson Walker
May your crust be crisp and your bread always rise!
— Peter Reinhart
Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
— Quentin Crisp
The dust was deep and crisp and even.
— David Mitchell
You're queer, I'll kill you.' I could only ask if the speaker wanted an appointment.
— Quentin Crisp
A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.
— Rachel Kushner
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
— Quentin Crisp
I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.
— Leah Spiegel
What is privacy if not for invading?
— Quentin Crisp
The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.
— Quentin Crisp
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
— Quentin Crisp
I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me.
— Quentin Crisp
People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
— Quentin Crisp
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
— Quentin Crisp
The tea tasted like a clear dark dripping from the past. My grandmother came back with it, in crisp black funeral silks,
— Ross Macdonald
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing.
— Quentin Crisp
