Cecil Beaton

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

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

— Cecil Beaton

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Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#been #covered #fashion #high #history

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

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

— Cecil Beaton

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Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

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I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#back #blue #circle #created #criticism

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. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#any #background #gold #islands #landscape

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. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#chewing #chewing gum #close #device #gum

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

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