Quote

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

Quentin Crisp

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Graphic Designer
Model
Socialite
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
Love
Promises
Weekend
Promise
Longer
Anyone
Lasts
Last
Always
Wary

More quotes by Quentin Crisp

Image
It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.
Quentin Crisp
Image
Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
Quentin Crisp
Image
It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
Quentin Crisp
Image
All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
Quentin Crisp
Image
The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.
Quentin Crisp
Image
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Quentin Crisp
Image
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp
Image
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
Quentin Crisp
Image
That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.
Quentin Crisp
Image
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
Quentin Crisp
Image
The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
Quentin Crisp
Image
Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
Quentin Crisp
Image
To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
Quentin Crisp
Image
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?'
Quentin Crisp
Image
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
Image
I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
Quentin Crisp
Image
You will survive if you believe in yourself.
Quentin Crisp
Image
I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.
Quentin Crisp
Image
Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.
Quentin Crisp
Image
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
Quentin Crisp