Cecil BeatonI have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.367Humanity
Cecil BeatonAll I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left. ✨ The Style Behind The Camera. www.esquire.com. September 2, 2016.301Love
Cecil BeatonThe truly fashionable are beyond fashion.379Politics
Cecil BeatonNever in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. ✨ Biography / Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.<… ▶293Humanity
Cecil BeatonOn close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.211Truth
Cecil BeatonWhat is elegance? Soap and water!233Sadness
Cecil BeatonBe daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the… ▶267Death
Cecil BeatonLove is someone you can be silly with141Love
Cecil BeatonPerhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.186Reading
Cecil BeatonMore varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and a… ▶219Life
Cecil BeatonMiss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs. ✨ Cecil Beaton (1957). The Fa… ▶142HumanityReadingThought
Cecil BeatonAmericans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.… ▶133DeathTruth
Cecil BeatonSan Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities167Humor
