Quentin Crisp Quotes

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

Quentin Crisp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 25, 1908 - November 21, 1999

Topics

EnoughPartnershipRelationshipsTake

I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.

Jo Nesbo

LifeWaterDoctorNightThinkYou

When we lost, I couldn't sleep at night. When we win, I can't sleep at night. But, when you win, you wake up feeling better.

Joe Torre

SleepWinNightWake UpBetterYou

Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.

Andre Leon Talley

YouHoneyWantUpBigThrow

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.

Jeff Bingaman

TodayEnergyAmericanYearPrice

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.

Stephen Dorff

GoodFeelYouBadAble

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

Sidney Lanier

StyleMyselfWordsPoetryPushFar

It is just completely disgraceful that someone can go to the extent of morphing my face onto someone else's body to create a sensational video.

Mona Singh

FaceSomeoneBodyCreateGoJust

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

Dick Schaap

GameLanguageNewEnglish Language

I think that the 21st century will be feminine, that it's women who will, perhaps, find a way out for this world.

Brigitte Macron

WomenWorldThinkFindWillWay

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

LifeTrustChildGiftLife Is A

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

Suzanne Farrell

MomentDoingYouLivingUngrateful

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

Sylvester Stallone

LifeHeartWaterStormPeopleYou

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Quentin Crisp