Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.
Quentin CrispI read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were directed at how to comport yourself in the presence of the ladies.
Quentin CrispIf you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
Quentin Crisp