Occupation: Writer Birth: December 25, 1908 Death: November 21, 1999
I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learn….
I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I di….
Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deli….
Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse..
The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr's cr….
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality..
If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident of our….
When I was young, I wanted to find the Great Dark Man. When I said that I realise now that people thought that by 'dark' I meant black, and that by '….
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style..
I've always lived in the same way..
The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colou….
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable..
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors..
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne..
The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose s….
I am the last of Britain's stately homos..
I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them..
Never get involved with someone who wants to change you.
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum..
Charisma is the ability to influence without logic..
The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who "goes with" ot….