We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.

Men die but an idea does not.

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.

The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.

There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.