What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway? — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“Youth, health, wealth and beauty are meant to be fuel, to be burned in pursuit of pleasure, and not fruit to be… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. — Julie Burchill Copy Share
In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I'm a… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy.… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable. — Julie Burchill Copy Share
Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
May I just single out for salutations, on the "anti-war" side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today. — Julie Burchill Copy Share
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days. — Julie Burchill Copy Share
