"Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet……" — Cecil Beaton
"Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality."
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Cecil Beaton
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16 Quotes by Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton has 16 quotes on this site.
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,…
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Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs…
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What is elegance? Soap and water!
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
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On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of…
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Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Love is someone you can be silly with
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Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus…
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All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
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I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear…
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San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities
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More Alert Quotes
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If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
— Glenn Beck
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion…
— Harold Brodkey
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This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries,…
— Margaret Chan
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When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny,…
— Kirstie Alley
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I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and…
— Robert H. Schuller
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward…
— Barry Lopez
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and…
— Thorstein Veblen
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do…
— Walter Savage Landor
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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain…
— Rajneesh
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