A biography for Quentin Crisphasn’t been written yet.
“An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.”
“Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.”
“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.”
“Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.”
“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.”
“Men get laid, but women get screwed.”
“The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.”
“However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.”