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.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

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

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.

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

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

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