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> [San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/san-francisco-is-perhaps-the-most-european-of-all-american-cities/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7d/cecil-beaton-26730_cities_san-francisco-is-perhaps-the-most-europe_1997314.jpg)

## More by Cecil Beaton

> [A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/a-technical-failure-that-shows-some-attempt-at-aesthetic-expression/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [“Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/be-daring-be-different-be-impractical-be-anything-that-will-assert/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [ \[He stared into the camera\] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill) ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/he-stared-into-the-camera-like-some-sort-of-an-animal-gazing-from/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/more-varied-than-any-landscape-was-the-landscape-in-the-sky-with/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/i-have-the-worst-ear-for-criticism-even-when-i-have-created-a-stage/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/americans-have-an-abiding-belief-in-their-ability-to-control-reality/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/never-in-the-history-of-fashion-has-so-little-material-been-raised-so/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/on-close-inspection-this-device-turned-out-to-be-a-funereal-juke-box/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/all-i-want-is-the-best-of-everything-and-there-s-very-little-of-that/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [Love is someone you can be silly with](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/love-is-someone-you-can-be-silly-with/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/intelligent-and-alert-wistful-but-enthusiastic-frank-yet-tactful/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/i-can-t-afford-a-whole-new-set-of-enemies/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/be-daring-be-different-be-impractical-be-anything-that-will-assert-2/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/san-francisco-is-perhaps-the-most-european-of-all-american-cities/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

> [Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-beaton/miss-marilyn-monroe-calls-to-mind-the-bouquet-of-a-fireworks-display/)

[Cecil Beaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-beaton/)

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