Stephen:  I think it was Donald Mainstock , the great amateur squash player , who pointed out how lovely I was . Until that time , I think it was safe to say that I had never really been aware of my own timeless brand of loveliness . But his words smote me because , of course you see , I am lovely in a fluffy moist kind of a way and who would have it otherwise ? I walk , let 's be splendid about this , in a lightly accented cloud of gorgeousness that is n't far short of being , quite simply , terrific . The secret of smooth almost shiny loveliness of the order of which we 're discussing in this simple , frank , creamy soft way does n't reside in oils , unguents , balms , ointments , creams , astringents , milks , moisturisers , liniments , lubricants , embrocations or balsams , to be rather divine for just one noble moment . It resides , and I mean this in a pink , slightly special way , in one 's attitude of mind . To be gorgeous and high and true and fine and fluffy and moist and sticky and lovely , all you have to do is believe that _ one _ is gorgeous and high and true and fine and fluffy and moist and sticky and lovely . And I believe it of myself , tremulously at first , and then with mounting heat and passion because , stopping off for a second to be super again , I 'm so often told it . That 's the secret really .