Quentin Crisp Quotes
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
Crisp, Quentin. The Naked Civil Servant. Jonathan Cape, 1968, p. 142.
This Puritanical point of view, has always characterized a significant segment of American society. It is responsible for the rather limited pomp and circumstances, ceremony and protocol of American politics compared with most of the rest of the world. Ironically, when Adams later became President, he thought that America had gone too far and needed more formality and elegance—especially in the treatment of the Presidency. He was then opposed by most who preferred his earlier view and that of his opponent, Thomas Jefferson.
See {640733} for an English political leader’s similar view.
A conservative Calvinist weekly periodical. Just as today, there were few politicians who could stand up to such a test.
Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt; 21 November 1999) was an English writer, raconteur and actor. From a conventional suburban background, Crisp wore make-up and painted his nails. During his teen years he worked briefly as a rent boy. He then spent thirty years as a professional model for life-classes in art colleges. The interviews he gave about his unusual life attracted increasing public curiosity and he was soon sought after for his very personal views on social manners and the cultivating of style. His one-man stage show was a long-running hit both in Britain and America and he also appeared in films and on T.V. Crisp defied convention by criticising both gay liberation and Diana, Princess of Wales.
