Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Quentin CrispI have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.
Quentin CrispNothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Quentin Crisp