Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 25. Dezember 1908 |
Geburtsort | Sutton, Surrey, England |
Todesort | Manchester |
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Beschreibung | Quentin Crisp (geboren als Denis Charles Pratt; 25. Dezember 1908 - 21. November 1999) war ein englischer Anekdotenerzähler, der unter anderem mit seinen Lebenserinnerungen und verschiedenen Medienauftritten an die Öffentlichkeit getreten ist. Bevor er bekannt wurde, war er ein Künstlermodell, daher auch der Titel seines berühmtesten Werks, The Naked Civil Servant. Später wurde er aufgrund seiner extravaganten Persönlichkeit, seines Sinns für Mode und seines Witzes zu einer Schwulenikone. Sein Status als Ikone war gelegentlich umstritten, da er sich zu Themen wie der AIDS-Krise äußerte. Dies rief die Kritik von Schwulenaktivisten hervor, darunter der Menschenrechtsaktivist Peter Tatchell. |
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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.
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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.
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Manners are love in a cool climate.
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?
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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.
