All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

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.

For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.