Noel Coward Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Noel Coward
Noel Coward Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Couldn't you see that all my flippancy was only a mask, hiding my real emotions
crushing them down desperately!
crushing them down desperately!
Entering an white tie and tails party wearing an ordinary suit, he announced,Please, I don't want anyone to apologize for over dressing.
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
I will accept anything in the theatre ... provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.
Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.
It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty ... and how few by dishonesty.
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.
How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.
A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.
Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.
You kissed me because you were awfully nice and I was awfully nice and we both liked kissing very much. It was inevitable.
Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.
Success is far more perilous than failure, isn't it? You've got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.
Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing.
Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.
Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed grill.
How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.
Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.
I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.
A.E. Matthews ambled through This Was a Man like a charming retriever who has buried a bone and can't quite remember where.
Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.
It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see,
That though the English are effete
They're quite impervious to heat.
That though the English are effete
They're quite impervious to heat.
I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?