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Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp

1908-12-25
1999-11-21
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Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.
Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery Phooey You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say 'Phooey,' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp (December 25, 1908(1908-12-25) - November 21, 1999), born Denis Charles Pratt, was an English writer, artist's model, actor and raconteur known for his memorable and insightful witticisms. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant, brought to the attention of the general public his defiant exhibitionism and longstanding refusal to remain in the closet
Quentin Crisp Interview Granada TV (1971)
An Interview with Quentin S. Crisp
Quentin Crisp: Before the Beatles there was... (1998)
An Englishman in New York (Trailer)
Quentin Crisp interviewed by Rian Keating, May 1983
올란도 (1992): 영원히 늙지도 죽지도 말라
The Naked Civil Servant (1975) by Jack Gold, Clip: Quentin finds his own kind - Bermondsey Liz!
Quentin Crisp as Greta Garbo
Deju Vu With Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp - "If you're on a tightrope..."
Quentin Crisp interviewed on Letterman, 1985
An Englishman in New York (2009): Arriving at New York
Seven Men - Quentin Crisp (1970) [full World in Action programme]
Quentin Crisp Collection on Letterman, 1982-83
An Evening With Quentin Crisp (Complete)
Quentin Crisp on the gay liberation movement, 1977: CBC Archives | CBC
Quentin Crisp - The naked civil servant - Thames Television
Quentin Crisp on Glamour
Gay ICON! An Englishman In New York (Full Movie) Biography, Drama, LGBTQ | John Hurt, Cynthia Nixon
Quentin Crisp interview | Good Afternoon | 1975
Quentin Crisp May 1987
Quentin Crisp interviewed on Gaytime TV, 26th June 1996
Bernard Braden interviews Quentin Crisp (1968) | BFI National Archive
quentin crisp morning routine at 90
Quentin Crisp interview | Naked Civil Servant | Mavis Catches up with...| 1989
The Significant Death of Quentin Crisp
quentin crisp and unemployability
QUENTIN CRISP IN NEW YORK (Channel 4, November 1991)
A Meal at the Factory with Andy Warhol (1985)
Quentin Crisp on THE BIG BREAKFAST (Channel Four, 1996)
Uncle Denis? (Quentin Crisp documentary)
The Naked Civil Servant (1975) - John Hurt as Quentin Crisp. Finale
Quentin Crisp was there before Matt Hancock
Quentin Crisp: Margaret the Duchess of Argyll (1998)
Quentin Crisp's acting debut in Captain Busby (1967) | BFI National Archive
Quentin Crisp Resident Alien
Quentin Crisp and Penny Arcade in Vienna
The Naked Civil Servant. Scene - Not Guilty As Charged.
Quentin Crisp' God
Quentin Crisp 1
Quentin Crisp in "Homo Heights" 1998
The Naked Civil Servant (1975) - sailors scene and no social anxiety
Fabulous Gay British Celebrity Quentin Crisp Visits New York | Comedy | 'An Englishman in New York'
Quentin Crisp Sit Up & Listen The Power of Speech 1982
Sting & Quentin Crisp - Resident Alien - An Englishman In New York
Quentin Crisp: Final Encore
Quentin Crisp’s Top Ten Tips On How To be Happy During Lockdown | covid 19|
1978: QUENTIN CRISP and JOHN HURT on The Naked Civil Servant
Quentin Crisp, Up Close and Personal, at the Flaunt It Club in 1988 (film festival version)
A TRIBUTE TO QUENTIN CRISP

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