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“Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.”
Cecil Beaton“Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.”
Cecil Beaton“After twenty annual visits I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.”
Cecil Beaton“Husbands are always angry, that's their nature.And the nature of us women,is not to pay a blind bit of notice.”
M.C. Beaton, Death of a Scriptwriter“Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.”
M.C. Beaton, Love, Lies and Liquor“what sinks of iniquity these little villages can be”
M.C. Beaton, Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body, As the Pig Turns, Hiss“It’s nice to have a station pet. Wish it wasn’t trapped in a hovering prison in the men’s bathroom, but listen: no pet is perfect. It becomes perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is.”
Cecil Baldwin“The moon’s weird though, right? It’s there, and there, and then suddenly it’s not. And it seems to be pretty far up. Is it watching us? If not, what is it watching instead? Is there something more interesting than us? Hey, watch us moon! We may not always be the best show in the universe, but we try.”
Cecil Baldwin“We have nothing to speak about. There never was. Words are an unnecessary trouble. Expression is time wasting away. Any communication is just a yelp in the darkness. I am speaking now but I am saying nothing. I am just making noises, and, as it happens, they are organized in words and you should not draw meaning from this.”
Cecil Baldwin“Sometimes you go through things that seem huge at the time, like a mysterious glowing cloud devouring your entire community. While they're happening, they feel like the only thing that matters and you can hardly imagine that there's a world out there that might have anything else going on. And then the glow cloud moves on. And you move on. And the event is behind you. And you may find, as time passes, that you remember it less and less. Or absolutely not at all, in my case.”
Cecil Baldwin“Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.”
Cecil Baldwin