Occupation: Writer Birth: December 25, 1908 Death: November 21, 1999
I never miss England..
The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality..
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast..
Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man..
Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit..
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information..
Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them..
America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness..
In England, nobody's your friend..
Los Angeles is just New York lying down..
Manners are love in a cool climate..
To lose is not always failure..
I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man..
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps..
I never saw Portsmouth by day..
If you don't stay in some days, you can't recharge your batteries..
Flowers are words even a baby can understand..
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it..
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred t….
I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were direc….
People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual..