Crisp

Famous quotes containing the word crisp:

    My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
    —Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

    If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
    —Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

    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 (b. 1908)