Quentin Crisp Quotes

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Quentin Crisp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FreedomSimpleFactsTolerance

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

Robert Kennedy

MenManWorldLossDignityLiving

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

Ani DiFranco

WorkWomenHateMindConnections

'The Searcher,' as the title suggests, is about someone in search of something, and I have always loved quest stories and so was drawn to writing one myself.

Simon Toyne

MyselfWritingSearchLovedSomeone

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

Rita Ora

LoveArtShoesSongPrettyThings

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

Mickey Spillane

PastI AmHouseSmellOutGet

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

Little Richard

LoveThinkEnoughWrongUsShow

Robert Wagner was my greatest crush.

Debbie Reynolds

CrushGreatestWagnerRobert

I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

Deborah Eisenberg

WorkDayBeginningSleepEndFall

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

Bob Uecker

MeFlameBoxPlayingAshesDozen

I'm very claustrophobic.

Brittany Snow

ClaustrophobicVery

A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of people with money but who can consider themselves unwanted or invisible or estranged from society.

William T. Vollmann

MoneyPeopleSocietyPovertyYou

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Pierre Corneille

CrimeDisgraceWhichScaffold

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