1) 3423. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988 ...NUMBER: 3423 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and... 2) 5811. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988 ...NUMBER: 5811 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: Mrs Woolf s complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me. ATTRIBUTION: Answering Virginia... 3) 6278. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988 ...NUMBER: 6278 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: I can t afford a whole new set of enemies. ATTRIBUTION: When asked why he didn t go into films, quoted by Hugo Vickers... 4) 4480. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988 ...NUMBER: 4480 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: A gardener not wholly herbivorous / From wilting was out to deliver us. / With blood, sweat and toil / She composted... 5) 5812. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988 ...NUMBER: 5812 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: An old Polish frog with a huge casket of jewels . and she clicks her teeth and shrugs, Only Rubbish. Much more in Paris.... 6) 4838. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988 ...NUMBER: 4838 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: Perhaps the world s second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore. ATTRIBUTION: Recalled on his death 18 Jan... 7) 6013. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988 ...NUMBER: 6013 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: What is elegance? Soap and water! ATTRIBUTION: NY Times 30 Jan 59... 8) 5813. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988 ...NUMBER: 5813 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: [He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. ATTRIBUTION: On Winston... 9) 6014. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988 ...NUMBER: 6014 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered... 10) 5564. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988 ...NUMBER: 5564 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: After 20 annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose... |