The truly fashionable are beyond fashion. – Cecil Beaton
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
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
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader. – Neville Cardus