Quentin and George Melly
In the autumn of 1945 George Melly was on leave from the navy and spotted Quentin in a restaurant. Quentin invited him to sit at his table.
Melly describes Quentin as
"very beautiful, but it wasn't a very human beauty . . . He was like a smaller figure in Richard Dadd, a Shakespearian king, a Beardley drawing, a character out of Firbank or Evelyn Waugh. He could have been Amborse Silk."
Later he commented that Quentin had
"the courage of a lioness."
They went to see a film together, and while on the bus, a passenger shouted at George
"Hey, Jack, can't you get yourself a proper girlfriend?"
Quentin described George thus
"He falls about lauging, he wants to live all the time. It's a kind of generosity - and there seems to be no affectation mixed up with all this gaiety."
Later Quentin made his now famous observation that
"Mr Melly has to be obscene to be believed."
Melly describes Quentin as
"very beautiful, but it wasn't a very human beauty . . . He was like a smaller figure in Richard Dadd, a Shakespearian king, a Beardley drawing, a character out of Firbank or Evelyn Waugh. He could have been Amborse Silk."
Later he commented that Quentin had
"the courage of a lioness."
They went to see a film together, and while on the bus, a passenger shouted at George
"Hey, Jack, can't you get yourself a proper girlfriend?"
Quentin described George thus
"He falls about lauging, he wants to live all the time. It's a kind of generosity - and there seems to be no affectation mixed up with all this gaiety."
Later Quentin made his now famous observation that
"Mr Melly has to be obscene to be believed."