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.

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

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

More 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 azure.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.