Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
More Quotes from 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.Quentin Crisp
Manners are love in a cool climate.
Quentin Crisp
It is not a biopic it is not a trawl through the facts of somebody's life. It is more an evening with a Shakespearean clown who speaks the truth and was whipped for his pains. Writing the play made me love and loathe my country more love it that it could create, and has always created, one-offs like Quentin loathe it for its rejection of him.
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.
Quentin Crisp
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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.
Quentin Crisp
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Sleep QuotesBased on Keywords: exhausting, stupefying
Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
Patricia Heaton
The devil is compromise.
Henrik Ibsen
I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
Rita Mae Brown