Quotes by
Noel Coward |
1899-1973 , British playwright
English playwright, actor, and composer best known for his highly polished comedies of manners. His best plays: Bitter Sweet (1929), Private Lives (1930), Design for Living (1933), Present Laughter (1939), Blithe Spirit (1941).
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Quotations
| • | I’ll go through life either first class or third, but never in second. 6 |
| • | Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power? 5 |
| • | We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we? 5 |
| • | That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. 5 |
| • | Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman’s virtually a nymphomaniac but you won’t find a vulgar word in the entire thing. 5 |
| • | I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise. 5 |
| • | Work is much more fun than fun. 4 |
| • | I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. 4 |
| • | Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others. 4 |
| • | You'll never decide what you want until you've decided who you are. 1 |
| • | Television is for appearing on, not looking at. |
| • | Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. |
| • | It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. |
| • | 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. |
| • | You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed. |
| • | Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority. |
| • | Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom. |
| • | Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything. |
| • | Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses. |
| • | Christmas is at our throats again. |
| • | What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining. |
| • | Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build. |
| • | Bed is the perfect climate. |
| • | How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini? |
| • | Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. |
| • | Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be. |
| • | As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on. |
| • | Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it. |
| • | Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners. |
| • | There's always something fishy about the French. |
| • | I also avoid green vegetables. They're grossly overrated. |
| • | Everybody worships me, it's nauseating. |
| • | There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want. |
| • | The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven. |
| • | I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring. |
| • | I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo. |
| • | I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. |
| • | I don't know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. |
