The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

On 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.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Be 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 slaves of the ordinary.