Occupation: Writer Birth: December 25, 1908 Death: November 21, 1999
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable..
I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed..
Europeans are quarrelsome..
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are..
Happiness is the only thing I understand..
Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time..
I never say 'No' to anything..
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method o….
Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way..
The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible..
You don't have to do anything..
You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself..
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level..
If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up..
To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drun….
If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being..
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice..
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen..
What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is..
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share..
I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospita….