Occupation: Writer Birth: December 25, 1908 Death: November 21, 1999
I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being..
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute….
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!.
Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberat….
Men get laid, but women get screwed..
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style..
I never really found out what love was..
In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor..
When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are ef….
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh..
I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me.
I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it..
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share..
What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is..
You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself..
The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible..
If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up..
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen..
Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way..
I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she deserved. She could have been Queen of E….
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….