Logo
Quote by Quentin Crisp
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. - Que

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. – Quentin Crisp

Other quotes by Quentin Crisp

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

Category:
Freedom
Author
Quentin Crisp
Read Quote

The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp

Category:
Teenagers
Author
Quentin Crisp
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Language
category

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Category:
Language

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
Language

The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It – Anthony Burgess

Category:
Language

If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals dont speak, its because everythings perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection. – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Language

Random Quotes

So often, I read scripts and am like, This would never happen in real life. Its not trying to be funny. Its trying to be serious. – Shailene Woodley

Category:
funny

Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administrations support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for societys most powerless. – Gary Bauer

Category:
Society

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule. – Buddha

Category:
Love

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. Its the only holiday I insist on making myself. – Ina Garten

Category:
thanksgiving